The Old Gods Part II
Sun’s-day
Moon-day
Tiw’s-day
Woden’s-day
Thor’s-day
Frig’s-day
Saturn’s-day
Thunor, god of thunder and Frig, goddess of growing things and fertility…. Perhaps it is both human and wise, like King Redwald, to keep in favor with both sides. Two altars were constructed side by side. At one altar the king partook of bread and wine, “the holy sacrifice of Christ” while at the other he sacrificed in the old style.
Redwald was a 7th-century king of East Anglia, a long-lived Anglo-Saxon kingdom which included the present-day English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was the son of Tytila of East Anglia and a member of the Wuffingas dynasty (named after his grandfather, Wuffa), who were the first kings of the East Angles. Details about Rædwald’s reign are scarce, primarily because the Viking invasions of the 9th century destroyed the monasteries in East Anglia where many documents would have been kept.
