Talk:Magic in Anglo-Saxon England

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Problematic "Background"

The background acts as if there was no significant population change and that all the peoples suddenly "adopted" (even a cringe-worthy use of the word "appropriated") Germanic pagan culture and "abandoned" Christianity. While the question of ethnic change in early medieval England following the change from a Brythonic to a Germanic language is still open (see eg. Woolf "Apartheid and Economics in Anglo-Saxon England", 2007), it is very misleading to characterize this as an adoption of a new culture by a static population group, such as here:

"Either way, the Anglo-Saxon populace of England adopted many cultural traits that differed from those in the preceding Iron Age and Romano-British periods. They adopted Old English, a Germanic language that differed markedly from the Celtic and Latin languages previously spoken, whilst they apparently abandoned Christianity, a monotheistic religion devoted to the worship of one God, and instead began following Anglo-Saxon paganism, a polytheistic faith revolving around the veneration of several deities."

That's just wrong all the way! This needs a rework to be up to date with modern scholarship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eldr-fire (talk • contribs) 16:29, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]