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the Indiculus superstit. xxxi.
extent, and by templum one of larger ;
4 has : de casulis i.e. (huts), fanis (see Suppl.). I admit that
some of the authorities cited leave it doubtful whether German
heathen temples- be intended, they might
be Eoman ones which
had been left standing ; in which case there is room for a twofold
hypothesis :
that the dominant German nation had allowed certain
communities in their midst to keep up the Eoman-Gallic cultus, or
that they themselves had taken possession of Eoman buildings for
the exercise of their
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own religion (see Suppl.). No thorough
investigation has yet been made of the state of religion among the
Gauls immediately before and after the irruption of the Germans ;
side by side with the converts there were still, no doubt, some
heathen Gauls; it is difficult therefore to pronounce for either
lypothesis, cases of both kinds may have co-existed. So much for
ihe doubtful authorities ; but it is not all of them that leave us in
any doubt. If the Tanfana temple could be built by Germans, we
can suppose the same of the Alamann, the Saxon and the Frisian
mples; and what was done in the first century, is still more likely
to have been done in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
Built Temples must in early times have been named in a variety
of ways (see Suppl.) : OHG. AS. OS. ON". Jwf, aula, atrium ;
OHG. holla, templum (Hymn. 24, 8), AS. heal, ON. holl (conf. hallr,
lapis, Goth, hallus); OHG. sal, ON. salr, AS. sele, OS.seli, aula;
AS. reced, domus, basilica (Ca^dm. 145, 11. 150, 16. 219, 23), OS.
aloud (Hel. 114, 17. 130, 20. 144, 4. 155, 20), an obscure word not
found in the other dialects ; OHG. petaptir, delubrum (Drat. 1,
1 As the vulgar took Roman fortifications for devil s dikes, it was natural
to associate with Roman castella the notion of idolatry. Rupertus Tuitiensis
t 1135) in his account of the fire of 1128 that levelled such a castellum at
Deuz, which had been adapted to Christian worship, informs us that some
thought it was built by Julius Caesar, others by Constantius and Constantine.
In the emperor Otto s time. St. Mary appears by night to archbishop Heribert:
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surge, et Tuitiense castrum petens, locum in eodem mundari praecipe, ibique
monasterium Deo mihique et omnibus sanctis constitue, nt, ubi quondam
habitavit peccatum et cultus daemonum, ibi justitia regnet et memoria
sanctorum/ with more of the like, in the Vita Heriberti cap. 15. Conf. the
fanum at Cologne above, p. 81.
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The asylum that atrium and temple offered within their precincts is in
ON. gri&asta&r, OHG. frtthof, OS. vrtthob, Hel. 151, 2, 9. MHG. vrone
vrithof, Nib. 1795, 2 ; not at all our friedhof [but conn, with frei, free], conf.
Goth, freidjan, OS. fridon That the constitution of the Old
(parcere).
German sanctuaries was still tor
tl^e most part heathenish, is discussed in RA.
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