norse paganism

I was reading about the Norse invasions of Britain, and how many of them settled there, and how the Old Norse language influenced the dialects of Northern England, but as far as I can tell, they never settled in numbers great enough to permanently leave behind the Norse language after the...

One of the reasons I've often seen for why "paganism" fell in the wake of Christianity was that many of these pagan faiths were so decentralized with to written tradition or anything to actively compete against Christianity. While the Norse did have their own script they were mostly carved on...

While there's a lot timelines about the viability of a Vinland colony I'm more interested in how it would effect later European colonial efforts? Given how disconnected Scandinavia was to the rest of Europe its possible that news of the new land wouldn't make too much headway in western Europe...

I've seen a couple threads on "Viking Islam" - or to describe it more accurately - scandinavian paganism being reworked into a evangelical religion like Christianity, Buddhism & co Though the focus tend to be, as its often the case, Europe and wheter this religion - should it exist - be able...

I'm not an expert on Norse paganism, but was there any possibility of in a tl where the faith survives that the king is viewed as a descendant of the gods and worshipped alongside them? What I'm aiming for is something like the Roman or Japanese emperors or even North Korea where the Norse king...

Denmark has always been on the periphery of Europe and only on a few occasions have this minor power had decisive influence on the chain of events that were to shape the fate of Europe. However one of these occasions happened in 810 and this event would reshape the entire history of Europe and...

This is one of my ideas -When the Norse settled in Greenland, they brought Celtics as well as Sami shipbuilders and reindeer herders; a few Norse settlers and Samis ran away from the settlements because of taxation or crimes and adapted a semi-nomadic lifestyle. In contrast to OTL, Greenlanders...

Whoo thats a whollop of a title. So basically in recent years and months I've noticed an upsurge in Vinland threads and the like, specifically one that do more than just posit whether the initial colony would fail or not which has pretty much been the staple for discussions about a Norse North...

Prologue:- *** Ongenþeow, the King of the Swedes was not having a good time. He was already in his middle age, and his dueling skills had dimmed quite the bit in the past years when peace reigned over the lands. The Geat King Hygelac had come back, bounced back from a war that his swedes had...

Part I: The first Óðr Fróði, son of Ævar, was probably born between 672 CE and 677 CE. Not much of his early life (before his Óðr) is known that isn't based on retroactive speculation some years after his death. Due to his early association with Visby, Gotland, it is assumed by most...

Now before some people start shouting ASB, hear me out. So I have a kind of hobby with Norse history. Norse history before 500 AD seems to be very very very blurry. Now, based on the title i can assume, some people will be thinking about Roman settlement in Scandinavia. This isn't what i am...