Comments on: Finding Britain's Lost Gods

Finding Britain's Lost Gods

misteraitch — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:29:06 -0800

I. Gods of Prehistoric Britain; II. Paganism in Roman Britain; III. Anglo-Saxon Pagan Gods; IV. Viking Pagan Gods in Britain: the first four of an on-going series of hour-long lectures at Gresham College by cravat-wearing historian Ronald Hutton. (Previously).

By: Liquidwolf

Liquidwolf — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:06:00 -0800

Thanks for this, I think I"ll like it.

By: orrnyereg

orrnyereg — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:24:44 -0800

I've read several of his books and they were all very interesting (his questionable sartorial choices notwithstanding).

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:26:30 -0800

Oh lord, I wanted to like Hutton's book on witches but it was just too dry for me. At least this is video because mythology is very firmly in my wheelhouse.

By: tavella

tavella — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:22:32 -0800

Hutton is always fun when he turns up on UK living history TV to tell them how they celebrated harvest and solstices or tell the odd ghost story.

By: drewbage1847

drewbage1847 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:23:06 -0800

I know we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but watching one of the vids and this guy looks and sounds exactly like what I'd expect from the description!

By: Abehammerb Lincoln

Abehammerb Lincoln — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:41:37 -0800

This is a great post. Please tell me this man has been interviewed by Philomena Cunk.

By: clawsoon

clawsoon — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:51:18 -0800

If you want more of Richard Hutton, I think he appeared near the end of every episode of Tudor Monastery Farm, getting people to celebrate some old English religious thing. Here he is jumping over a Midsummer fire.

By: The demon that lives in the air

The demon that lives in the air — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:02:55 -0800

Abehammerb Lincoln, he did! In Cunk on Britain, for sure. I wouldn't be surprised if he's in others.

By: jb

jb — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:08:58 -0800

I had a copy of Stations of the Sun, but lent it to someone who didn't return it, argh. I need to get another one. I have wanted a copy of The Rise and Fall of Merry England, but it's been out of print and hundreds of dollars for a copy. But maybe it's available as an ebook now. This is the long way of saying that Ronald Hutton is terrific.

By: SaltySalticid

SaltySalticid — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:31:18 -0800

Clicked through for the cravat, was not disappointed! I'll watch more for the interesting content, but well done on the hook.

By: greycap

greycap — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:59:28 -0800

I have wanted a copy of The Rise and Fall of Merry England, but it's been out of print and hundreds of dollars for a copy. But maybe it's available as an ebook now. Ahem.

By: heatherlogan

heatherlogan — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 06:39:33 -0800

*swoon* I know what I'm doing this weekend.

By: verstegan

verstegan — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:55:37 -0800

Back in 2018, in answer to an AskMeFi question, I recommended Hutton's documentary A Very British Witchcraft as 'a lively and fair-minded account of Gardnerian Wicca'. The 2018 link is dead now, but there's another one here.

By: dowcrag

dowcrag — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:46:55 -0800

Hutton's a great writer and I will really enjoy these when I get a chance. Pagan Britain is excellent. I agree he can be quite dry but one great thing about him, at least in that book, is his unwillingness to speculate - he's really good at just saying 'we simply don't know what was in their heads' rather than making spicy stuff up.