# Anglo-Saxon <iframe width="100%" height="350" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon-paganism"></iframe> • Sense of time/dating was based on how many seasons a king had reigned as opposed to the Christian dating system • 7 day week: "The seven day week, with its weekly religious ritual and abstention from work was, as far as we know, new to the Anglo-Saxons." • The relationship between an uncle and a nephew was seen as sacred, Christians formed the godparent idea upon this • Burial: ship, no form of accompanying sacrifice in literature of archaeology? • Literature shows the importance of stringed instruments in their lives • Fame: "for each man, praise of the living, speaking in afterdays, is the best of epitaphs" (The seafarer) Stags were symbols of royalty (In Beowulf the largest hall was called Heorot ("stag")) ## Scholarship ### Overviews [[stanley1975]] ### Misc. [[carver2010]] articles