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3 unusual facts about Temple at Uppsala


Simon Grunau

Scholars agree that this addition was most probably borrowed from Adam of Bremen and his description of the Temple at Uppsala.

Temple at Uppsala

Orchard points out that Adam's description of the temple has often been questioned "on several levels" and that Thietmar of Merseburg produced a considerably less detailed but similar account of sacrifices held in Lejre, Denmark earlier in the 11th century.

Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, "Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed."



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