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CONTENTS; Preface to the new edition, AD 2000; Introduction to the 1975 edition of The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism; PART 1: THE SEARCH FOR ANGLO-SAXON PAGANISM; 1. The Romantic background; 2. The English branch of the German tree; 3. Christianity puts an end to folk-poetry; 4. `Half-veiled remains of pagan poetry'; 5. English and German views on the conversion of the English; 6. J.M. Kemble; 7. The views of the founders seen through the writings oftheir lesser contemporaries; 8. English views of the late nineteenth century and after
9. Stock Views Disintegrating Old EnglishPoems and Finding Germanic Antiquitiesin themA. Disintegration; (i) Beowulf; (ii) The elegies; (iii) Gnomic Poems; B. The Search for Germanic Antiquities; 11. Wyrd; A. `Event' or `Fate', Norn or Fortune; B. Early Interpretations of Wyrd; C. Wyrd in a Leipzig Ph.D. Thesis; D. Germanic Fatalism Accommodated in Anglo-Saxon Christianity; E. Germanic Fatalism: a Key to Anglo-Saxon Melancholy; F. Wyrd: the Mark of Heathenism; G. Fate and Providence; H. Metod; I. More Recent Pagan Interpretations of Wyrd; J. Wyrd in Solomon and Saturn
K. Current Views on Wyrd12. Conclusion; PART II: ANGLO-SAXON TRIAL BY JURY; Trial by Jury and How Later Ages Perceive its OriginPerhaps in Anglo-Saxon England; 1. Jury: this palladium of our liberties, sacredand inviolate; 2. Delivering the truth not the same as judging; 3. Guilt and innocence a matter of conscience; 4. `England's great and glorious Revolution'(1688), its debt to Henry II's revival ofancient institutions fostering liberty; 5. Trial by jury not a Proto-Germanic norperhaps an Anglo-Saxon institution; but whatof the twelve leading thegns of the Wapentake?
6. Why promulgated at Wantage?7. The twelve of the wapentake probably aninstitution for the Danelaw only; 8. Conclusion; I. INDEX OF SOURCES; II. INDEX OF SCHOLARS, CRITICS, AND AUTHORS; III. GENERAL INDEX