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Scandinavia was very well christianized by 1400, but the old beliefs has lived all the way up to our time. The gods weren't worshipped very much anymore (though there are stories about old men worshipping the old gods all up to the 19th century), but they lived in the stories and the fairy tale.
Remember the fairytale about that one (don't remember who...) who found that huge mitten, and slept inside it? And in the morning he woke up and found that it belonged to a troll. Tor slept in a mitten and found that it belonged to a jotun.
Also there's Askeladden and his good helpers! One of the helpers (a helper is a god, obviously...) could hear the grass grow in the fields and the wool grow on the sheep. Heimdall could do the same! And then there is the ship that could sail as good on land as on water, that was big enough to hold a hundred men, but still it could be bent together and put in the pocket!
In several places in Norway it has been custom to serve nornsgraut (norn porrige) to women in childbed to hail the norns (destiny) and make them protect mother and child.
All that about Uppsala is rather uncertain, I'd say... There probaly has been some place with temples and such, but most probably not as big as the stories say, and certainly not where it is widely believed to have been. That far north there's found no signs of temples, or any big stone buildings at all, and the graves that has been opened has only held females. That doesn't exactly fit with the patriarchical and violent Uppsala stories.... It can refer to the old nature religion, though, and the last home of the jotnir.
Remember the fairytale about that one (don't remember who...) who found that huge mitten, and slept inside it? And in the morning he woke up and found that it belonged to a troll. Tor slept in a mitten and found that it belonged to a jotun.
Also there's Askeladden and his good helpers! One of the helpers (a helper is a god, obviously...) could hear the grass grow in the fields and the wool grow on the sheep. Heimdall could do the same! And then there is the ship that could sail as good on land as on water, that was big enough to hold a hundred men, but still it could be bent together and put in the pocket!
In several places in Norway it has been custom to serve nornsgraut (norn porrige) to women in childbed to hail the norns (destiny) and make them protect mother and child.
All that about Uppsala is rather uncertain, I'd say... There probaly has been some place with temples and such, but most probably not as big as the stories say, and certainly not where it is widely believed to have been. That far north there's found no signs of temples, or any big stone buildings at all, and the graves that has been opened has only held females. That doesn't exactly fit with the patriarchical and violent Uppsala stories.... It can refer to the old nature religion, though, and the last home of the jotnir.
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maybe stupid Moynihan and Soderlind next time learn some albums titles?
