History of England . II.] AND GOVERNMENT. n Strathdyde, the territory of the northern British, whichextended to the Firth of Clyde, long remained unsub-dued. Ebnet, the district round Leeds, was also an inde-pendent Welsh kingdom till the seventh century, whenit was conquered by the Northumbrian King Edwin. 4. Religion.—The faith of the English was muchthe same as that of the Teutonic tribes generally—heathenism, though not of a degraded form. Woden^called by the Danes Odin, was their chief god, thegiver of valour and victory; after him came Thunor,that is, Thunder, better known by h
History of England . II.] AND GOVERNMENT. n Strathdyde, the territory of the northern British, whichextended to the Firth of Clyde, long remained unsub-dued. Ebnet, the district round Leeds, was also an inde-pendent Welsh kingdom till the seventh century, whenit was conquered by the Northumbrian King Edwin. 4. Religion.—The faith of the English was muchthe same as that of the Teutonic tribes generally—heathenism, though not of a degraded form. Woden^called by the Danes Odin, was their chief god, thegiver of valour and victory; after him came Thunor,that is, Thunder, better known by his Danish name ofThor^ the ruler of the sky ; and many other gods andgoddesses The names of the days of the week, asWednesday, Wodens day, Thursday, Thors day, stillpreserve the memory of some of these deities. Thename of the goddess Eostre (Easter), worshipped inthe month of April, has passed to the Christian Feastof the Resurrection. Wyrd, that is, Fate, lives on inthe word weird, which in northern tales and ba
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