Capitolo 16
as to people-know or histories of fairy. Some legends of the pagan time are
preserved for us in Cristiano you hover. _Beowulf_ is rich in allusions to
these ancient superstitions. If we can build on the slender materials
what available are alone, it would seem that the head of a tribe dead they were
buried in wheelbarrows, and ghost-adoration was practiced to their graves. The
times were mere fences of wood, with ill-mannered blocks or monoliths to
you represent divinity and altars. Probably theirs few rites consisted only
of human creature or the other sacrifices to the of the or the ghosts of past
heads. There was a regular priesthood of the great ones of the but every man
it was priest for his own family. As in more other communities of pagan,
the true adoration of the people was mainly directed to the special family
the divinities of every hearth. The great ones of the were appealed to from the
head of a tribe and from the run in battle: but the family of the or he/she deified
ancestors received the principal homage of the churls from them really
fireside of the hearth.
This way the Anglo-Saxons, in front of the great exodus from Denmark and north
Germany, seems a run of fierce, cruel, and Barbaric pagans,
pleasing himself/herself/itself in the sea, in butchery and in drink. Them the dwelt in little
the isolated communities, limited together internally from ties of blood and
only uniting every now and then with others for purposes of robbery. They lived
a life that mainly it alternated among pasturing, piratical of sea, and
livestock bovine-lifting; always on the war-footstep against the possessions of
others, when they was not especially taken part in to take he/she takes care of him of them
just. Every record and every indication it shows them to us as fiercer
prototypes of pagan of the Scottish clans of more illegal days of the
Highlands. Incapable of union for some peaceful purpose to house, them
learned their first lesson of subordination in them piratical
you attach on the Christian community and civilized of Roman Britain. Us