I love Mr Bill Griffiths

[highlyeccentric]

To the modern critical mind it is not only most convenient to study Anglo-Saxon England positively in the light of a Christian state, it becomes almost possible, for the period, to dispense with paganism altogether. For if thereis no self-documentation from the pre-Christian ambit, how can its identity or influence be seriously asserted? What is pagan almost becomes what we are reluctant to let Christianity take the credit for...
- Bill Griffiths, Aspects of Anglo Saxon Magic, (Anglo Saxon Books: Frithgarth, England, 1996), p. 77

YAY!
this is exactly what i think, about all medieval christianity. We want to draw our own dogmatic lines- this is christian, this is not- and somehow expect that this explains a medieval belief system.