Were the Anglo-Saxons Pagan at the time or Christian? | Forums

[Radman500]

this looks like a Christian church.....did the Anglo Saxons still practice Germanic paganism like the Vikings or were they essentially purely Christian at the time?

[Starryunicorn]

They were Christian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ...-Saxon_England

[LDS_Darth_Revan]

They had converted to Christianity a couple centuries before the events of the game:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism

[Radman500]

They were Christian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ...-Saxon_England

thank you....

viking conversion to christianity was later though right?

[Starryunicorn]

For the most part it was spread out over a few hundred years, though a number of them converted early to make ruling Christian lands and diplomacy easier.

[LDS_Darth_Revan]

thank you....

viking conversion to christianity was later though right?

Correct. They started converting a few decades after contact. So at the time we play as we see in the trailer they still believe in the Norse gods like Odin.

[Locopells]

Christian churches and monasteries (like Lindisfarne) were big targets for the Vikings...

[thegardener25]

Christian churches and monasteries (like Lindisfarne) were big targets for the Vikings...

Yeah Lindisfarne is the big headline grabber, because it's an English monastery. The Vikings did the same to Iona on the west coast of Scotland as well as pretty much all western & northern islands

[VestigialLlama4]

The Vikings targeted Christian monasteries because these monasteries were centers of trade via pilgrimage and other stuff. Their attacks on Christian churches was motivated solely by treasure and plunder, and not out of any real religious clash.

The fact is that Christian Kings in that time also sacked monasteries during their battles with each other but Christian on Christian violence was treated differently than an attack by foreigners who believed in entirely new kinds of Gods.

Anyway, Anglo-Saxons were fully Christian by the time the Vikings arrive, and in fact its the Vikings that really helped make the Saxons trick everyone into thinking they are English, since it allowed them to make the people forget that they were invaders from Germanic-Nordic lands too.

[Radman500]

The Vikings targeted Christian monasteries because these monasteries were centers of trade via pilgrimage and other stuff. Their attacks on Christian churches was motivated solely by treasure and plunder, and not out of any real religious clash.

The fact is that Christian Kings in that time also sacked monasteries during their battles with each other but Christian on Christian violence was treated differently than an attack by foreigners who believed in entirely new kinds of Gods.

Anyway, Anglo-Saxons were fully Christian by the time the Vikings arrive, and in fact its the Vikings that really helped make the Saxons trick everyone into thinking they are English, since it allowed them to make the people forget that they were invaders from Germanic-Nordic lands too.

So essentially the Vikings, because of their invasions, forced the Saxons to create the identity of "Englishness" as a way for them to unify against the Vikings?.that seems to make alot of sense, is this the historical picture of it