The Frisians were a Germanicspeaking people living in the coastal area of the Netherlands and Germany. Before the conversion to Christianity, a long process beginning after the Frankish Conquest of Frisia, the Frisians worshipped a series of gods, likely closely related to the Norse gods known from Icelandic Mythology like Odin, Thor, Frey and others. In this lecture, I talk about what archaeological remains pertain to the paganism or heathenism in Frisia, their cemeteries and burial practices, relations to the Norse and AngloSaxon worlds.

Timestamps:

00:0003:35 Funerary Rights
03:3504:40 Frisian Dog Burials
04:4006:15 Frisian Beliefs in the Afterlife
06:1508:16 Frisian Boat Burials
08:1610:44 Warband Burials
10:4417:30 Frisian Fibulae and Material Culture
17:3019:20 Pagan Amulets and Charms
19:2023:03 What was Frisian Paganism?

This video is taken from a section of a talk I gave at the PreChristian Student Conference in Oslo in November 2023. Full video here:
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