 | The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin History) by James Campbell
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £10.50 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: £4.78 / Used from: £1.79 Another great, if brief, intro
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 | Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford history of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.60 More background; a little outdated, and a bit of a slog, but still one of the best
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 | The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England
Buy new: £24.49 / Used from: £24.56 Superb reference book
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 | Looking for the Lost Gods of England by Kathleen Herbert
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £6.01 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: £15.00 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: £9.65 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: £18.69 / Used from: £15.00 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: £7.11 / Used from: £4.76 As above
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 | A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones
Buy new: £18.31 / Used from: £11.95 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: £173.95 Medicine, religion and magic and how they intertwined
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 | Anglo-saxon Medicine (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by M.L. Cameron
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £16.00 Not as accessible as Pollington but informative nonetheless
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 | Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Magic by Bill Griffiths
Buy new: £14.89 / Used from: £22.68 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: £21.21 / Used from: £13.94 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: £4.99 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: £31.35 / Used from: £36.50 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 Eric Gerald Stanley
Buy new: £40.00 / Used from: £29.29 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 used from: £2.07 Anglo-Saxon religion through the eyes of an Anglo-Saxon
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 | Beowulf: A New Translation
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.09 A lesson in heathen ethics
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 | Beowulf: A Glossed Text (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £1.28 The above in the original Old English
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 | An Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker
Buy used from: £14.50 If you want to read the above but don't know how, this'll teach you
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 | English Heroic Legends
Buy used from: £7.50 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: £65.00 Some serious flaws, but you can't ignore its passion for the subject in this labour of love
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