A community-maintained tertiary reference on Anglo-Saxon paganism, directly examined. Its strength is a precise conversion-completion date and a directly quoted surviving Old English charm text; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than an early medieval religion monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on Anglo-Saxon paganism, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the practice window, the fifth through eighth centuries CE, the note that by the end of the 680s all Anglo-Saxon peoples were at least nominally Christian, the surviving Old English Nine Herbs Charm and its opening and healing lines, and its own pointer to Heathenry (New Religious Movement) as the modern revival.
Citation
AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism
Source Typereference
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Associated With
This source names Anglo-Saxon Paganism directly: "tertiary reference on Anglo-Saxon paganism, directly examined."
This source names Anglo-Saxons directly: "A community-maintained tertiary reference on Anglo-Saxon paganism, directly examined."
This source names Saxons directly: "A community-maintained tertiary reference on Anglo-Saxon paganism, directly examined."
Claims Backed By This Source (22 claims)
This source backs 22 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Prayers, 11 claims: 6 well-attested, 5 general references.
- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
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