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For thousands of years before the Romans and Christians came along, the people of northern Europe lived in a very different world - a pagan world

Anthropologist Richard Rudgley travels across Europe and through 5000 years of history in search of evidence of a vanished way of life. From the Neolithic standing stones of Ireland to the bawdy practices of the Vikings of Iceland; and from the precious, magical costumes of the wizard-priests of Germany to astonishing Baltic bog treasures and rock art. Rudgley uncovers evidence of a rich and colourful pagan culture that has often been undervalued by history but has had profound effect on the way we live now.

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