 | The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin History)
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £8.95 First you need to understand the historical background; this is the best introduction to the subject
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 | The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Blair
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.50 Another great, if brief, intro
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 | Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Frank M. Stenton
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.00 More background; a little outdated, and a bit of a slog, but still one of the best
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 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
Buy new: £24.29 / Used from: £24.00 Superb reference book
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 | Looking for the Lost Gods of England by Kathleen Herbert
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £2.89 Onto the religion itself, this is where to start: a great little book with plenty of info
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 | Lost Gods of England by Brian Branston
Buy used from: £6.55 Not without its faults, but still essential
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| Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons by Gale R. Owen
Buy used from: £9.50 A little light on info, but worth the read
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 | The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £17.44 / Used from: £11.75 Fantastic. A-S heathenism only makes up a small part of the book but it gives a great idea of how environment may have played its part
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 | Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £4.25 As above
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 | A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £7.43 Flawed in places but still provides excellent insight into A-S heathenry's relation to paganism in the rest of Europe
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 | Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plant-lore and Healing by Stephen Pollington
Buy used from: £50.00 Medicine, religion and magic and how they intertwined
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 | Anglo-saxon Medicine (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by M.L. Cameron
Buy new: £18.42 / Used from: £19.84 Not as accessible as Pollington but informative nonetheless
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 | Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Magic by Bill Griffiths
Buy new: £12.46 / Used from: £18.83 Magic was not essential to A-S heathen practice, but cannot be ignored
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 | Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context by Karen Louise Jolly
Buy new: £10.86 / Used from: £9.99 See above
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| An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Kingship by Peter Fox
To understand A-S heathenry, you need to understand the concept of sacral kingship
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| The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity (Reprint Editions of Manchester University Press) by William A. Chaney
Buy used from: £6.96 Great expansion on the intro above.
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 | Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Richard North
Buy new: £29.00 / Used from: £36.41 Not an easy read, but worth the effort
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| Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury by E.G. Stanley
Buy new: £41.93 / Used from: £31.48 A little depressing for the reconstructionist but a neccessary wake-up call if you don't want to go all New Age
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 | The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Oxford World's Classics) by Bede
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £2.90 Anglo-Saxon religion through the eyes of an Anglo-Saxon
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 | Beowulf: A New Translation
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.23 A lesson in heathen ethics
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 | Beowulf: A Glossed Text (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £2.73 / Used from: £0.39 The above in the original Old English
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 | An Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker
Buy new: £22.14 / Used from: £19.99 If you want to read the above but don't know how, this'll teach you
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 | English Heroic Legends
Buy new: £9.92 / Used from: £8.50 Anglo-saxon legends well researched and beautifully retold
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 | Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration, and Magic: Uncludes the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem by Tony Linsell
Buy used from: £74.42 Some serious flaws, but you can't ignore its passion for the subject in this labour of love
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