From the Author Duke Henry the Lion, King Waldemar, and Bishop Absalon answer the Pope's call for the Northern Crusade to Christianize Baltic Slavs. Being successful in achieving their goal, and having subdued the Slavs, they witness the strange and unusual temples, statues, customs, and divination rituals of the Wendish Slavs, artefacts and practices that are scarcely, if at all, documented in other sources, and appear or deduced from archeological finds. Read more About the Author Stanislaw Sielicki is a history, political philosophy, linguistic studies, and comparative mythology enthusiast. He is published on the open platforms such as and Academia.edu, and in peer-reviewed journals. He highly adores the academician D.S. Likhachev's saying: "There are no bad documentary sources, there are bad historians who are not skilled enough to work with them". Read more
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23 pages of fluff.
This book is 23 pages. It has very little information at all in it.Dont waste your time with this book. You can find more information on the internet!
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Exactly what it says it is
A surprisingly clear translation with the original Latin of the Gesta Danorum fragments relevant to the topic included. It is interesting, but the exact nature of some of the worship and gods mentioned remains fairly unclear just from this fragments from Danish Christians.
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