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266 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Anglo-Saxon Myths and the Origin of Fairies

The Symbolic World

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The Genealogy in the Gospel According to St. Luke, Right?

The descendants of the kings of Wessex already knew that they were descended from Oven, Wotans. And so like, Germanic paganism is present. Alfred actually really, how do I say this? The Northern Germanic people had their own memory of God with giants. It's one of the major pieces of the major Beowulf poem. So here's where I will say something really cool, and then we'll just save it for next time.

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