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unusual facts about Norse paganism



Acta sanctorum in Selio

They settle the previously uninhabited islands of Selja and Kinn in Norway during the rule of the pagan Jarl Hákon Sigurðarson.

Hákonarmál

This poem emulates Eiríksmál and is intended to depict the Christian Hákon as a friend to the pagan gods.

Redbad, King of the Frisians

In Harry Harrison's The Hammer and the Cross series of novels, Radbod becomes the founder of "the Way", an organized pagan cult, created to combat the efforts of Christian missionaries.


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