Anglo-Saxon Paganism: Elves, ents, orcs and temples

What exactly are elves in the Anglo-Saxon pagan belief system? Did Anglo-Saxon pagans believe in an afterlife and Hell? I will answer all these questions in this video which is the second part of a 2 part series - I will also show you what their pagan temple at Yeavering looked like, and explain how the elves, orcs, dwarves, land wights and ents of their belief system were all classed as demons after Christianisation.

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Music:
Chris Zabriskie - various
Bark Sound Productions - various
Borg - compositions from The Triumph of Spring
Kevin McLeod - various
Cefin Beorn - Se Freca
Ormgård - various
Sjhof - Loki’s meditation
Stark von Oben - various
Myling - Tocken
Mauerbrecher - mossgrown path
R. Shah - FRTR theme
Sir Cubworth - the throne room
Khan Kurra - litte dragon
Xurious - steppe expansion

Art:
Thomas Cormack - Elf blot
https://tcormackart.wordpress.com/
Christian Sloan Hall - Hel, orcs, Odin, draugr
https://www.deathlord.co.uk/
Christopher Steininger - Idunn, boat animation, mead-hall
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Robert Molyneaux - Yeavering temple animation
https://www.artstation.com/robertmolyneaux

Sources:
Abram, C. ‘In Search of Lost Time: Aldhelm and The Ruin’, Quaestio (Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic), vol. 1, 2000.
Dowden, Ken (2000). European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
https://amzn.to/2SYhySz
Doyle, Conan. (2018). Dweorg in Old English: Aspects of Disease Terminology.
Gunnel, T., ‘How Elvish were the Elves?’ 2007.
Hall, A., 'Are there any Elves in Anglo-Saxon Place-Names?', Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 29 (2006), 61-80.
Hall, A., (2004). The Meanings of Elf, and Elves, in Medieval England. 2007.
Lund, J., "At the Water's Edge" in "Signals of Belief in Early England"
Lysaght, P. ‘the banshee: the irish supernatural death messenger’
https://amzn.to/3vPpsuY
North, R. 1997 Heathen gods in Old English literature. https://amzn.to/3gQW03m
Pollington, S. 2011. The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England.
https://amzn.to/3vKaVkg
Price, Neil & Mortimer, Paul. (2014). An Eye for Odin? Divine Role-Playing in the Age of Sutton Hoo. European Journal of Archaeology.
Semple. S., A Fear of the Past: The Place of the Prehistoric Burial Mound in the Ideology of Middle and Later Anglo-Saxon England. (1998)

00:00 Introduction
01:37 Sacred Temples
07:25 Other sacred places
11:45 Demons?
12:59 Hel, wælcyrge and the afterlife
23:50 Wyrd sisters
28:03 Evil things
31:46 Water monsters
33:14 House spirits
35:00 Elves
41:48 Dwarves
44:44 Animism
49:17 Conclusion

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