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...ius of Bangor. All of these texts shed light on the conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons, and each of them in turn referred to the sixth century writings of Gildas the Wise. Therefore these are among the primary sources used in this study of who the early pagan Anglo-Saxons were, and how it was that they came to abandon their ancestral religion in favor of Christianity. Why the ancient pagan Anglo-Saxon warlords came to adopt the Christian faith is a most intriguing question. It was the religion born of long dead Semitic Essene extremists, and for those Anglo-Saxon chieftains the great intellectual leap was taken in making sense of it on their own terms. The conversion of pre-Anglo-Saxon Roman Britain actually began with an hallucination by a heathen warlord on the eve of leading his troops into a great battle. He would become the Roman emperor Constantine, and he interpreted his "vision" to mean that Jesus of Nazareth had become the universe's new supreme God of War. It was only years later, on his deathbed, that C...