The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity
- ISBN-10
- 0520014014
- ISBN-13
- 9780520014015
- Category
- Anglo-Saxons
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- William A. Chaney
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Nennius also brings the lines from Woden down to these two kings.101 Finally , the kings of Lindsey , whom no early ... Brit . , c . 60 ) . Cf. R. W. Chambers , Beowulf , pp . 195-198 ( ' The Mercian Genealogy ' ) , in which the ninth ...
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