The 'Fanatical Heathenism' of the Saxons and the Return to our Saxon Identity

The Saxon people were amongst the last of the Germanic peoples to be converted to Christianity. Unlike the Icelanders the Saxons fought to the death to preserve their heathen religion and overturn the advances of Christianity. Christianity had to be imposed upon the Saxons by fire and by the sword. They did not meekly agree by voting to swap religions as happened in Iceland in about 1000 CE.

Widukind (also known as Wittekind) led the Saxons in defence of their heathen religion against Charlemagne (Karl der Große) in the `Saxon Wars` from 777 to 785 CE. The rebellion against Karl`s Franks was no doubt precipitated by the disgraceful destruction of the Irminsul sanctuary in 772. Unlike many of the other Saxon nobles he refused to appear at Karl`s court in Paderborn in 777. The Frankish Annals refer to him as a `traitor` and an `insurgent`-words still used by today to demonise the opponents of the Zionist-American NWO.

The Saxons retaliated against the Franks (the NWO of the day) by destroying xtian churches, much like the  Vikings did a little later. Karl desperately wanted to incorporate the Saxon lands into his empire, much like the NWO is doing today in eastern Europe. Widukind`s companion and fellow Germanic heathen was the Danish Sigfred who was possibly the famous Sigurd Hring. The Nibelungenlied records an alliance of the Saxons and Danes against the Franks led by Siegfried. Gudmund Schuette in his Our Forefathers the Gothonic Nations Volume II refers to: 

"Saxon-Danish political co-operation against the Franks from the sixth to the ninth century."

Warfare between the Saxons and Franks intensified between the years 782-784 and this culminated in the Massacre of Verden, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in 782 when 4,500 Saxon rebels were captured and massacred for their refusal to capitulate to Karl and accept the alien religion of Christianity. National Socialist Germany honoured these heathen martyrs and a memorial known as the Sachsenhain (Saxon Grove) was erected in 1935 which still stands today. The memorial takes the form of 4,500 boulders to represent each of the martyrs beheaded by the butcher Karl.

Widukind translates as `child of the woods`. We are reminded of the English Saxon Robin i` the Hood, who was also considered to be an `outlaw`, fighting against foreign Norman domination and is also considered to be a Woden archetype.

So persistent was Saxon heathenism that in the 9th century a special baptismal vow, the Old Saxon Baptismal Vow had to be worded when converting the Saxons to Christianity:

"End ec forsacho allum dioboles uuercum and uuordum, Thunaer ende Uuôden ende Saxnôte ende allum thêm unholdum thê hira genôtas sint."

"'I renounce all the deeds and words of the devil, Thunaer, Wōden and Saxnōt, and all those fiends that are their companions."

 The Anglo-Saxons were likewise noted for their 'fanatical heathenism'.  Gudmund Schuette makes the interesting point that although the Angles were only a minority with the Jutes when compared to the more numerous Saxons yet it is their name rather than Saxon which was eventually adopted by the English nation. He speculates that this was because of the 'bad reputation' that the Saxons had because of their  'fanatical heathenism'. Today we should take this as a compliment!

Schuette throughout his work emphasises the 'fanatical heathenism' of the Saxons and this is something that we as Saxons or Anglo-Saxons today, who hear the call of the blood, which is none other than the call of the Gods should take heathen and racial pride in. Indeed I would go so far to say that as it is the Saxon element that predominately made up the Anglo-Saxons in England we as heathens should consider the abandoning of the name of  'English' once and for all. I will here enumerate my reasons for this:

1. The ethnic English are predominately Saxon in origin, not Anglian.

2. The Saxons unlike the Angles clung tenaciously to their natural religion. There were of course honourable and notable exceptions such as King Penda of Mercia.

3. English or Anglian is wrapped up in Christianity via Anglicanism. The two are almost synonymous.

4. Non-English immigrants and their decendants are increasingly identifying themselves as being not just 'British' (a civic nationality) but as 'English'.

5. One who is not Germanic can not possibly identify him or herself as Saxon and this helps to preserve both our ethnic and religious identity.

6. The term 'Saxon' alligns our racial and religious identity with that of our continental Germanic brethren and away from Zionist 'Britain'.

The Old Saxon Baptismal View-Some Comments on its Origins

Old Saxon original: End ec forsacho allum dioboles uuercum and uuordum, Thunær ende Uuôden ende Saxnôte ende allum thêm unholdum thê hira genôtas sint.

English translation: And I renounce all the deeds and words of the devil, Thunear, Wōden and Saxnōt, and all those fiends that are their companions.

The language of The Old Saxon Baptismal Vow is disputed by scholars. Dutch scholars, some of whom may be more influenced by Dutch nationalism rather than scholarly objectivity argue that the language is not Old Saxon (Old Low German) but  Old Franconian (Old Dutch) and for this reason it is also (by Dutch scholars) called the Utrecht Baptismal Vow. The more honest (and objective) position to take (in my view) is to state that we simply do not know if it is Saxon or Franconian due to the great similarities between these two West Germanic languages. One only has to consider the similarities between modern Dutch and Platt Deutsch (which my  late Saxon mother was able to understand) and realise that the boundaries between languages or dialects is often very narrow. I would add that the manuscript was found not in the Netherlands but in the monastery library at Mainz in Germany although this is not definitive evidence that it is German in origin of course.

The identity of Saxnot is also a matter of dispute as Jacob Grimm considered that it was an alternative and Saxon name for the God Zio (Tiu/Tyr) whilst Rudolf Simek argues an identification with the God Yngvi Fro. My own view is that He is a separate God and moreover that He was a tribal God of the Saxons. His name appears in the divine ancestry of the Kings of Essex as a son of Woden. Apparently earlier version of this genealogy do not include Woden and have instead Saxnot at its head. The issue of the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies is worthy of a study in their own right. One could argue that if this vow were Franconian in origin then why does it feature an obviously SAXON God?