Recommended Books on Germanic Paganism

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This is part of a series of videos I’ve posted on recommended books on some of the Indo-European Pagan religions. Check them and my other videos out, and if you like what I do, consider subscribing. Also check out my website, http://ceisiwrserith.com/, where, among other things, you’ll find more information on Indo-European religions, as well as links to sites interesting to those researching Germanic Paganism. If you like what I do, please subscribe. Primary Sources: Anonymous. Beowulf. Anonymous. The Poetic Edda. Tacitus. Germania. Thorsson, Örnólfur (ed.) The Sagas of the Icelanders: A Selection. Secondary sources: Andrén, Anders; Kristina Jennbert; Catharina Raudvere(eds.). Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives. Bauschatz, Paul D. The Well and the Tree. Davidson, H. R. Ellis. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe. Davidson, H. R. Ellis. Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe. Dubois, Thomas A. Nordic Religions in the Viking Age. Dumézil, Georges. Gods of the Ancient Northmen. Enright, Michael J. Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy, and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age. Neff, Mary Susan. Germanic Sacrifice: An Analytical Study Using Linguistic, Archaeological and Literary Data. (May be ordered through Dissertation Express. http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb/search.html) Owen, Gale R. Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons. Perkins, Richard. Thor the Wind-Raiser and the Eyrarland Image. (http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/Text%20Series/Thor_the_Windraiser/Thor.pdf) Raudvere, Catharina; Jens Peter Schødt (eds.). More than Mythology. Shaw, PhilipA. Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons. Turville-Petre, E. O. G. Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia. Here are some on-line articles and books: Battaglia, Frank. Beowulf: A Regime of Enforcement. Paper given at the First Globalist Conference, 2012. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Battaglia.Beowulf.Default-format.8-15-12.pdf Benjamin, Megan. Horse as Status Symbols: Medieval Icelandic Horses as Status Symbols of Masculine Honor in a One-Sexed World. (2008). http://www.meganbenjamin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Horses-as-Status-Symbols.pdf Bremmer, Rolf H., Jr. The Anglo-Saxon Pantheon According to Richard Verstegen (1605). In The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. ed. Timothy Graham. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/17909/Pages%20from%20Anglo-Saxon%20Pantheonfulltext.pdf?sequence=1 Bursche, Aleksander. Germanci Gold Bracteates from the Hoard in Zagórzyn near Kalisz. In Byzantine Coins in Central Europe between the 5th and 10th Centuries. ed. M. Wołoszyn. http://www.archeo.uw.edu.pl/zalaczniki/upload801.pdf Harris, Joseph. Myth and Literary History: Two Germanic Examples. Oral Traditions 19:1 (2004), 3-19. http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/19i/Harris.pdf Joseph, Brian D. Old English Hengest as an Indo-European Twin Hero. Mankind Quarterly. 24 (1983), 105-15. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/publications/1983hengest.pdf Lindow, John. Bloodfeud and Scandinavian Mythology. Alvíssmál 4 (1994), 51-68. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/4feud.pdf Lindow, John. Thor’s Duel with Hrungnir. Alvíssmál 6 (1996), 3-20. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/alvismal/6duel.pdf Lindow, John. Thor’s Visit to Útgarðaloki. Oral Tradition 15:1 (20000, 170-86. http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/15i/10_lindow.pdf Millar, Angel. The Old English Rune Poem – Semantics, Structure, and Symmetry. Journal of Indo-European Studies 34: 3-4 (2006), 419-36. http://www.esswe.org/uploads/user-files/07Millar-419-436-.pdf Olexová, Kateřina. Ritual in Beowulf. Masaryk University in Brno. http://is.muni.cz/th/145525/ff_b/ba_thesis.pdf Sayers, William. Irish Perspective on Heimdallr. Alvíssmál 2 (193), 3-30. http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/2heimdal.pdf Stephany, Timothy. Interpreting the Gotland Memorial Stones. http://timothystephany.com/papers/Article-GotlandStones.pdf Stephany, Timothy. Thor and Tyr: Revealing the Indo-European Sky God. http://timothystephany.com/papers/Article09-Tyr.pdf The opening and closing shots are a combination of a depiction of Yggdrasil from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yggdrasil_AM_738_4to.jpg) and a view of the sacred site Þingvellir in Iceland (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dsland#mediaviewer/File:Thingvellir_1_Herbst_2004.jpg.)