Mihai Dragnea (PhD 2018) is associate researcher at the University of South-Eastern Norway, president of the Balkan History Association, and editor of Hiperboreea, the journal affiliated with the association. His interests and collaboration include cultural, social and political relations between Germans, Scandinavians and Wends during the High Middle Ages; the Viking Age; early Slavic ethnicity and state formation; and identity and conflict in the Balkans. His PhD dissertation entitled Mission Crusade in the Wendish Territory, 12th Century was published in Romanian (2019). A second short format book The Wendish Crusade, 1147: The Development of Crusading Ideology in the Twelfth Century was published in 2019.

• List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Who Were the Wends? – A Brief History of Christianity across the Elbe – Wendish Idolatry in a Broader Context – Divination and Fortune-Tellers in Christianity – Horse Divination among the Liutici – Rethra as the sedes ydolatriae of the Liutici – Conclusion – Index.

Mihai Dragnea (PhD 2018) is associate researcher at the University of South-Eastern Norway, president of the Balkan History Association, and editor of Hiperboreea, the journal affiliated with the association. His interests and collaboration include cultural, social and political relations between Germans, Scandinavians and Wends during the High Middle Ages; the Viking Age; early Slavic ethnicity and state formation; and identity and conflict in the Balkans. His PhD dissertation entitled Mission Crusade in the Wendish Territory, 12th Century was published in Romanian (2019). A second short format book The Wendish Crusade, 1147: The Development of Crusading Ideology in the Twelfth Century was published in 2019.

• List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Who Were the Wends? – A Brief History of Christianity across the Elbe – Wendish Idolatry in a Broader Context – Divination and Fortune-Tellers in Christianity – Horse Divination among the Liutici – Rethra as the sedes ydolatriae of the Liutici – Conclusion – Index.

Mihai Dragnea (PhD 2018) is associate researcher at the University of South-Eastern Norway, president of the Balkan History Association, and editor of Hiperboreea, the journal affiliated with the association. His interests and collaboration include cultural, social and political relations between Germans, Scandinavians and Wends during the High Middle Ages; the Viking Age; early Slavic ethnicity and state formation; and identity and conflict in the Balkans. His PhD dissertation entitled Mission Crusade in the Wendish Territory, 12th Century was published in Romanian (2019). A second short format book The Wendish Crusade, 1147: The Development of Crusading Ideology in the Twelfth Century was published in 2019.

• List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Who Were the Wends? – A Brief History of Christianity across the Elbe – Wendish Idolatry in a Broader Context – Divination and Fortune-Tellers in Christianity – Horse Divination among the Liutici – Rethra as the sedes ydolatriae of the Liutici – Conclusion – Index.