Wed, 08 Mar
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Viking Pagan Gods in Britain - Tickets
When the Vikings arrived in Britain and overthrew the Anglo-Saxons there was a change to pagan Gods.
Time & Location
08 Mar 2023, 18:00
Online
About the event
The Norse and Danish invaders - commonly called Vikings - who occupied Britain in the ninth and tenth centuries, brought with them their own pagan gods. Odin, Thor, Tyr, Loki and Freya left their trace on the British landscape, in the form of scenes from their mythology carved on stone slabs, and Viking paganism has a further considerable legacy of material evidence in richly furnished graves, especially on the Isle of Man.
Professor Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford Universities, and was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He is now a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries and the Learned Society of Wales, and has won awards for teaching and research. He has lectured all over the world, authored 18 books and 83 essays, appeared in or presented scores of television and radio programmes, and sits on the editorial boards of six journals concerned with the history of religion and magic.
This FREE event is run by Gresham College in London. You must regsiter at: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/viking-gods