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lOS Saga-Book of the Viking Society I must end by expressing my gratitude to the author for the stimulation provided by his provocative statements. The book has greatly broadened my view of the Viking Age. I am sure it will do the same for others. D. M. WILSON
CELTIC AND GERMANIC RELIGION By JAN DE VRIES* JULI US CAESAR has given in the sixth book of his Commentaries a most important sketch of the Gaulish religion; he speaks about the gods, about the sacrifices and the druids. After finishing this account, he adds some remarks about the religion of the Teutons and writes down the remarkable phrase, that there is a great difference in this respect between the Gauls and the Germanic peoples. This sentence has often been the corner-stone of comparison between the religious ideas and cults of both peoples, for it seemed to be an indubitable proof that on the one hand the religion of the Teutons at Caesar's time was still very crude and primitive, whilst on the other hand the Celts had arrived at a much higher standard of civilization. It may therefore be worth while to reconsider the exact value of Caesar's statement. At the time when he was writing this little essay on the Gaulish creed, he had scarcely had the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the cultural and social situation on the other side of the Rhine. As far as we can judge now, after having got much more extensive information about the Germanic religion, we must state that Caesar's remarks show a very superficial knowledge of it, although they are not altogether erroneous. But his fairly detailed account of the situation in Gaul seems to prove that he had both the wish and the opportunity to be well informed. Still, modern scholars doubt his reliability in this part of his memoirs. Some do not shrink even from asserting • Dr Jan rIe Vries, Honorary Life Member of the Society, died on 23 July 1964. This paper was given as one of the O'Donnell Lectures before the University of Oxford in May 1962. It is now published hy kind permission of the Board of English in Oxford, in whom the management of the O'Donnell Lectureship is vested, and the copyright of the article lies with the Board. Dr de Vries's other O'Donnell Lecture, 'Germanic and Celtic heroic traditions', was printed in the Saga-Booh XVI I (rQ62), 22-40. B
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