Category Religion

Olaus Magnus, Church History, History of the Religion, Protestantism in Sweden, Religion

Heresy in Olaus Magnus – Reactions to the Lutheran Reformation in the North (XVIs)

Published originally in Portuguese as: Reações à reforma luterana no Norte: as diversas faces da heresia e heterodoxia na Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, de Olaus Magnus (XVIs): PLURA, Revista de Estudos de Religião, ISSN 2179-0019, vol. 8, nº 2, 2017,…

Andris Mucenieks
8 January 2023

Gotlandic picture stone from Stora Hammars I, in Lärbro parish, Sweden, displaying a Valknut and possibly depicting a Viking Age sacrifice.

Archaeology, Germanic Peoples, History of the Religion, Late Antiquity, Medieval Age, Mythology, Religion, Viking age

Human Sacrifices and War Sacrifices in the Viking Age Scandinavia

Sacrifices have been common religious practices all around the world since prehistoric times. Nevertheless, there was an extensive and sometimes heated debate over whether medieval reports on sacrifices in the Viking Age, especially human sacrifices, refer to actual events or were fabricated reports to denigrate the pagan faiths.

Andris Mucenieks
21 August 2022