Contents

pp v-vi

Preface to the new edition, AD 2000

pp vii-xii

Introduction to the 1975 edition of The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism

pp xiii-xvi

PART I - THE SEARCH FOR ANGLO-SAXON PAGANISM

pp 1-2

1 - The Romantic background

pp 3-6

2 - The English branch of the German tree

pp 7-9

3 - Christianity puts an end to folk-poetry

pp 10-13

4 - ‘Half-veiled remains of pagan poetry’

pp 14-23

5 - English and German views on the conversion of the English

pp 24-28

6 - J.M. Kemble

pp 29-32

7 - The views of the founders seen through the writings of their lesser contemporaries

pp 33-37

8 - English views of the late nineteenth century and after

pp 38-39

9 - Stock views disintegrating Old English poems and finding Germanic antiquities in them

pp 40-76

10 - The gods Themselves

pp 77-84

11 - Wyrd

pp 85-109

12 - Conclusion

pp 110-110

PART II - ANGLO-SAXON TRIAL BY JURY

pp 111-112

1 - Jury: this palladium of our liberties, sacred and inviolate

pp 113-122

2 - Delivering the truth not the same as judging

pp 123-128

3 - Guilt and innocence a matter of conscience

pp 129-131

4 - ‘England's great and glorious Revolution’ (1688), its debt to Henry II's revival of ancient institutions fostering liberty

pp 132-135

5 - Trial by jury not a Proto-Germanic nor perhaps an Anglo-Saxon institution; but what of the twelve leading thegns of the wapentake?

pp 136-139

6 - Why promulgated at Wantage?

pp 140-141

7 - The twelve of the wapentake probably an institution for the Danelaw only

pp 142-145

8 - Conclusion

pp 146-148

I. Index of sources

pp 149-151

II. Index of scholars, critics, and authors

pp 152-154

III. General Index

pp 155-158