The Christianization of Scandinavia, as well as other Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, took place between the 8th and the 12th centuries. The...
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Islands Christianization of the Basque people Christianization of Iceland Christianization of Scandinavia Christianization of Finland Christianization of Kievan...
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Scandinavia came later than most parts of Europe. In Denmark Harald Bluetooth Christianized the country around 965. The process of Christianization began...
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Norse mythology (redirect from Table of Norse mythology)
body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the...
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gradual Christianization in the course of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By CE 700, England and Francia were officially Christian, and by 1100...
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The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told...
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Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. Scandinavia most...
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The lifetime of the Younger Futhark corresponds roughly to the Viking Age. Their use declined after the Christianization of Scandinavia; most writing...
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Thor (redirect from List of places named after Thor)
during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, Mjölnir, were worn and Norse pagan...
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Vlasto 1970, p. 208. Berend, Nora, ed. (2007). Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900–1200. Cambridge...
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the year 500 A.D. up until the Christianization of Scandinavia (by the 13th century), these large halls were vital parts of the political center. They were...
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(2004). "New Perspectives on the Christianization of Scandinavia and the Organization of the Early Church". Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350: Contact, Conflict...
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Germanic kingship (redirect from Breaker-of-Rings)
and pre-Christianization practice was slowly being replaced. The Frankish state under the Merovingian dynasty had many of the characteristics of Germanic...
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Gosforth Cross (category Sculptures of the Crucifixion of Jesus)
combination of Christian symbols with Nordic symbols, being a tangible piece of evidence of the impact of the Christianization of Scandinavia. The Gosforth...
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Blood eagle (category European instruments of torture)
several hundred years after the Christianization of Scandinavia. In the 1970s, Alfred Smyth supported the historicity of the rite, stating that it is clearly...
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Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia. The University of Uppsala. Semple, Sarah (2013). Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon...
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between the clans due to the importance of kinship. As central government gradually was established in Scandinavia, the ætt lost its relevance for commoners...
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Holst's Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity. Quorthon dedicated the song "One Rode to Asa Bay", about the Christianization of Scandinavia, to C. Dean Andersson,...
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Proto-Indo-European mythology. Archaeological remains, such as petroglyphs in Scandinavia, suggest continuity in Germanic mythology since at least the Nordic Bronze...
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in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir (and the Valkyries), from pre-historic times until the Christianization of Scandinavia. Its purpose...
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and the known parts of southern Scandinavia in the north. Archaeologically, these people correspond roughly to the Roman Iron Age of those regions. The...
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Geats (redirect from Country of the Geats)
settlement of Britain included many North Germanic people who were losers in the brutal tribal warfare of Scandinavia. The place-name -gate marks the site of Geatish...
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Christianization of the Franks was the process of converting the pagan Franks to Catholicism during the late 5th century and early 6th century. It was...
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inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia, and the consolidation...
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Teutons (redirect from History of the Teutons)
this bay as being the Baltic Sea, and Codannovia as being Scandinavia. 31. On the other side of the Albis [Elbe], the huge Codanus Bay [Baltic Sea] is filled...
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compulsory. Ari Thorgilsson's Book of the Icelanders, the oldest indigenous account of Iceland's Christianization, describes how Icelanders agreed to...
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Persecution of Germanic Pagans may refer to: Christianisation of the Germanic peoples Christianization of Scandinavia Suppression of esoteric groups in...
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backdrop of the gradual Christianization of Scandinavia, contrasting the pragmatic Norse pagan outlook with the exclusiveness of Islam and Christianity...
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Medieval Scandinavian law (redirect from Provincial laws of Sweden)
Age they were committed to writing, mostly by Christian monks after the Christianization of Scandinavia. Initially, they were geographically limited to...
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the tribe of the Germanic Suebi. The knot is attested by Tacitus in his 1st century AD work Germania, found on contemporary depictions of Germanic peoples...
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