AHC: Norse Pagan Islam-equivelent

My idea was for the Norse religion to spread by force, perhaps due to a prophet, but not to become monotheist (or even change too much).

I've never really thought much of a religion spreading by force. Mostly because I've never heard of that actually drawing long term conversions.
 
I've never really thought much of a religion spreading by force. Mostly because I've never heard of that actually drawing long term conversions.

I think he means a state that expands by force which holds to a new faith that is adopted by the conquered peoples, much like the case of the Caliphate (which is very different than conquest by force)
 
"If Magnus will not go to the fjord, then the fjord must go to Magnus." :D

Hate to be picky (actually, that's a lie i love it), but Magnus is very much a CHRISTIAN name, coming from Carolus Magnus, whom we usually call Charlemagne in English.

It would be like if Mohammed's name had been Peter or Philip or something.
 
Your challenge is to have the Norse and Germanic Pagans assemble under a single prophet (like Mohammed) by OTL equivalent 700 AD, and spread across Europe by force. The religion must not deviate too much from reality (keeping to the Norse Pagan ways).

Rules:

  • Has to be the predominant religion of at least all North, Central, West and East Europe by the OTL year 1500
  • Christianity and Islam do not have to exist
  • Bonus points for having it spread to South Europe and as far east as Central Asia
Good luck!
the basic idea here was sort of the plot of a trilogy by Harry Harrison, where the Norse gods are (apparently) real, and his followers organize themselves into a sort of evangelical religion that challenges Christianity, and wins out in Scandinavia and Britain. It follows the career of a man who goes from thrall to king to emperor. In the trilogy, HH seems to have a weird hatred of Christianity, rather like he did for the Brits in the Stars and Stripes trilogy...
 

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According to my lectures in Lund on the Vikings, there is some material evidence for some Vikings having converted to Islam.
 
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