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Book review: Silence of the Gods: The untold history of Europe’s last pagan peoples by Francis Young

Book review: Silence of the Gods: The untold history of Europe’s last pagan peoples by Francis Young

Thursday, July 24, 2025
IN 1589, the German traveller Johann David Wunderer visited Samogitia, in the west of modern-day Lithuania. What he found there disturbed him greatly: the local people, he claimed, “live like wild animals, without faith or religion, and they not o...