compulsory. Ari Thorgilsson's Book of the Icelanders, the oldest indigenous account of Iceland's Christianization, describes how Icelanders agreed to...

also the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark and independent Iceland between 1918 and...

The Christianization of Scandinavia, as well as other Nordic countries and the Baltic countries, took place between the 8th and the 12th centuries. The...

The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages. In 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople told...

Islands Christianization of the Basque people Christianization of Iceland Christianization of Scandinavia Christianization of Finland Christianization of Kievan...

gradual Christianization in the course of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By AD 700, England and Francia were officially Christian, and by 1100...

the Christianization of Iceland, Pagan beliefs were strongly held, remnants of which remain today. Icelandic society and culture has a high degree of gender...

still one of the most discussed poems of the Poetic Edda and dates to the 10th century, the century before the Christianization of Iceland. Some scholars...

is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia...

Conversion. A Comparative Study of Christianization in Scandinavia. The University of Uppsala. Semple, Sarah (2013). Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon...

inclusion of the Scandinavian Viking Age and culminating in the Icelandic family sagas of the 13th century. Indeed, Christianization resulted in the loss of the...

Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...

The Christianization of Iceland in the 11th century brought with it new religious concepts. According to one Christian folk tale, the origins of the hidden...

and pre-Christianization practice was slowly being replaced. The Frankish state under the Merovingian dynasty had many of the characteristics of Germanic...

defeated who would not submit to Harald's rule emigrated to Iceland (q.v.). The exact year of the battle is unknown, but is generally considered to have...

works of Old Norse literature, most of which were written down in the Icelandic Commonwealth during the Middle Ages; of particular importance is the Poetic...

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...

Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-906716-18-9. Berend, Nora (2007). Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900–1200...

events of the fourth century, and partly because striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian...

The Church of Iceland (Icelandic: Þjóðkirkjan, lit. 'The National Church'), officially the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (hin evangelíska lúterska...

brought under Frankish control (Frisian-Frankish wars), but the Christianization of the local population and cultural assimilation was a slow process...

runes. The lifetime of the Younger Futhark corresponds roughly to the Viking Age. Their use declined after the Christianization of Scandinavia; most writing...

Knut (1915). History of the Norwegian People. Vol. 1. The MacMillan Company. See for instance, 'hirð' in Cleasby-Vigfusson, Icelandic-English Dictionary...

beginning of the Viking Age. They spoke dǫnsk tunga (Danish tongue), which the Danes shared with the people in Norway and Sweden and later in Iceland and the...

The recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day...

heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity. It is first attributed to Arius (c. AD 256–336), a Christian presbyter who preached and studied in...

Norway's overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland). The union was not quite...

demographics of Iceland include population density, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population...

culminating in the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988. Coinciding with the general decline of the Viking Age, the influx of Scandinavians to Rus'...

Religion in Iceland has been predominantly Christianity since its adoption as the state religion by the Althing under the influence of Olaf Tryggvason...