Anglo-Saxon Paganism
Anglo-Saxon England
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The Nine Herbs Charm
The name Woden appears elsewhere in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus, but chiefly as a royal ancestor. The Nine Herbs Charm offers the closest thing we have to a mythological story about Woden. This may well have been filtered through cultural memory of Woden as a force in the world and that the Norse called Othene. But it is likely that whoever wrote the charm was not pagan, rather they were apparently influenced by Christianity.
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