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  • 8th November 2014 – Wuffing Education, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. With Paul Mortimer
  • 27th September 2014 – Rowhedge Heritage Trust, Rowhedge, Colchester, Essex. With Paul Mortimer
  • 28th June 2014 – Barton-on-Humber. With Paul Mortimer
  • 31st May 2014 – Swords in Anglo-Saxon England. Wuffing Education, Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. An examination of the manufacture and meaning of swords in the Early Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological and literary evidence. With Paul Mortimer. Contact Wuffing Education www.wuffingeducation.co.uk/
  • 8th February 2014 – ‘Woden and the Wolf-Kin’ at Oxfordshire Museum Service, Fletcher’s House, Park Street, Woodstock OX20 1SN
  • 15th December 2013 – Sutton Hoo Visitor Centre – an ‘out of the case’ session with members of the Sutton Hoo Society and King Rædwald himself.

 

Television

Stephen provided the voice-over in Old English for Michael Wood’s three-part series on the Anglo-Saxon kings.

Book Projects

The third edition of The English Warrior is now with the publisher and is scheduled for publication in 2014.

The collaboration with Paul Mortimer, David Roper and Brian Ansell was published in 2013 under the title ‘The Sutton Hoo Stone’.

A long-overdue review of the early runic texts is in the planning stage.

‘The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England’ was published in 2011. It is available direct from Anglo-Saxon Books.

A paper delivered to the Cambridge conference on medieval feasting was published in Journal of Medieval History

Meadhall was issued in a second edition in February 2011

Work continues on a second CD of readings in Old English

Booking

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The Elder Gods:The Otherworld in Early England

elderThe earliest physical evidence for a Germanic presence in Britain is found in 1st century AD inscriptions from the area of Hadrian’s Wall. From at least that time until the conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kings in the late 600s Britain had a heathen Germanic culture. The beliefs and superstitions that were part of that broad culture varied from place to place and from time to time but most sprang from a common origin.

After a presence of six centuries a new wave of heathens arrived in Britain. Scandinavians brought with them beliefs, attitudes and a world view that were much like those promoted by Anglo-Saxon heathenry. Although their outlooks shared the same roots and were very similar, they had evolved differently. This Scandinavian addition extended the heathen period to almost a thousand years during which heathen beliefs developed in line with social and ideological change, which included competition with Christianity. The latter had the great advantage of being promoted by a powerful centralised organisation which heathens did not have.

The purpose of the work is to bring together a range of evidence for pre-Christian beliefs and attitudes to the Otherworld drawn from archaeology, linguistics, literary studies and comparative mythology. The English tradition was rich and varied, and influenced the worldview of the later mediaeval and Norse societies. Aspects of this tradition are with us still in the 21st century.

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