I've heard about Lady Godiva but I didn't really know anything but she rode through a town naked, nor did I know she was Anglo-Saxon. The whole event kind of reminds of the naked cycle ride protests that sometimes go on in London.

Well I live on the Essex Suffolk boarder. Maybe I'll start going to these things next year.

Thanks for the help everyone,

It's actually really hard but slowly getting use to the OE language I can now say a sentence as if I was born speaking OE

The rails are annoying its like here in essex they change company every six months and the price for using vending machines in Colchester station is enough to give a healthy person a heart attack 1pound for a mars bar!

I kind of agree with Leofwin on the chanting of the poem but maybe it was a combination of a chanting song and narrated to create the atmosphere like in this case using narration to set the scene of Grendel with a simple subtle hearpe tune then go into more melody when it's sung/chanted?

I was born in the 90's I spent my time mostly indoors but I can imitate an owl call by rolling my Tongue and breathing out and I do this for entertainment which amazes everyone and no one can do it, but I've been doing this trick for most of my life.

The last program I watched based on A-S period stuff was the program about the Saxon hoard and before that I watched 1066- battle for middle earth. A really good 2 part film based on the events leading up to Hastings from a recent married young adult drafted to war. Very moving.

I have been researching (trying to) this topic for weeks and I find it the most interesting because the information at hand is so vague. So I thought I'd make a topic on it to get everyone's opinions. 

Their gods/idols as we all know are pretty much similar to their Viking counterparts but I read somewhere (can't remember where) that basically explains that their gods could of been ordinary people like poets and warriors at some point but after many years they were revered as gods. While looking into them I start getting confused because I'm torn between thinking they are these supernatural people living in a different plane of existence to us, but then at the same point I think that they could of been the same as the Viking counterparts but different name?

On wikia I found an article of a Saxon tradition where basically they appoint a tree or an old stone tower as a place of importance called the Irminsul( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irminsul) but I don't know if this is a real piece of A-S pagan puzzle and if it is what was it really used for ? Maybe a place where the earth and sky meets the pillar creating a gateway to their gods?

But the information is so vague it's unreal but during research there's little hints that like shamanistic (maybe) and "people of Ing" but it seems that everyone outside of the tribes hated it soo much that they sought out destruction on their way of life it's like they feared it like it was a plague. Maybe we could fill in the gaps by looking at the religion of the other tribes that lived along side them?

During my journey of this topic I've got to a point where I'm asking so many questions for my brain resulting in many headaches from over thinking. I hope this is a valid opinion as I'm writing this with a huge cold.