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Norse & Germanic Paganism
Heathenry; forn siðr, the old custom
c.500 BCE – c.1100 CE · Indigenous / Folk · Revived / Reconstructed · Scandinavia, Germany, England, Iceland
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.98 CE Tacitus describes Germanic religion, partly as a rebuke to Roman decadence.
- c.400–700 CE Migration period; Anglo-Saxons carry the religion to Britain.
- 793 CE Lindisfarne raided; the Viking Age begins.
- c.829–865 CE Ansgar's missions to Scandinavia.
- 922 CE Ibn Fadlan witnesses a Rus chieftain's funeral on the Volga, including the sacrifice of a slave woman.
- c.965 CE Harald Bluetooth converts Denmark; the Jelling stone records it.
- 1000 CE Iceland converts by parliamentary decision. The lawspeaker Þorgeirr, a heathen priest, spends a day under a cloak and rules for Christianity to preserve the peace, with private heathen sacrifice permitted for a time.
- c.1100 CE Uppsala temple falls; organised paganism ends in Sweden.
- 1220s–1270s Snorri and the Eddas — written by Christians, which is the only reason any of it survives.
- 1930s–40s Nazi appropriation of Germanic symbolism, a legacy modern Heathens spend considerable effort repudiating.
- 1972 Ásatrúarfélagið recognised as an official religion in Iceland.
### Sources
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