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Not given the concept of euhemerism.
It would be assumed that the "deities" were in fact human kings
who were given divine status by their ignorant (i.e. prechristian)
descendants.
Meg
Isn't this a bit odd for a Catholic king's lineage, assuming Woden etc were
pagan deities?
JBW
John B. Wickstrom
Kalamazoo College
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Subject: Re: divine blood in the early MA
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>>
>> Were East Anglian rulers descended from Odin? I know Odin's in the
>> geneology of the West Saxon kings.
Nennius gives Woden (Odin) as the ancestor of the kings of Bernicia, East
Anglia, Mercia, and Deira.
John Briggs
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