Matt Lewis

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

It's quite often Christian light. matched

not necessarily as monotheistic as we matched

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And the Anglo-Saxon dupes come from that area of Northern Europe that is still pagan. matched

So they are worshipping that much broader pantheon of gods that will include people like Woden and Thor and all of those kinds of figures. matched

And so, again, it's hard to say whether the whole of Britain reverts to some pagan religion because there's a new elite arriving who are imposing themselves. matched

But we do then begin to see, so if the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxons and Jutes are arriving, say, around 450, we do begin to see Christianity arriving by the end of the 6th century. matched

So 597, you've got St. matched

Augustine's mission completed. matched

to England. matched

He's sent by Pope Gregory the Great to preach Christianity to England. matched

Very quickly gets a convert in the form of Ethelbert the King of Kent, who marries a Frankish wife, Bertha, and the Franks are Christian by this point. matched

So she is influencing her husband towards Christianity. matched

Saint Augustine plays along with it as well. matched

And we also have the force coming from the west and the north of Celtic Christianity. matched

which has never kind of abandoned Ireland in the northwest of Scotland. matched

And they're largely based at Iona and they begin to send missions into the north of Scotland and the north of England too. matched

So in 635, those are beginning and you get Edwin, who is a king of Northumbria in the northeast, adopting Celtic Christianity because of the influence of Iona up there. matched

Later on, you'll get a Northumbrian king, Oswald, who adopts Roman Christianity because of the influence of his wife, who comes from a Roman Christian family. matched

Yeah, hugely, hugely. matched

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