How the Norse Became Christian

Germans  have cultural (and some genetic) roots from Scandinavia. The Germanic tribes originated in Scandinavia and spread south into Germany conquering and assimilating the native Celtic tribes there. There ARE alot of Nordic Germans in the northernmost part of Germany where the Scandinavian Germanics wiped out the tribes living there. In Southern Germany the people there have more of an alpine look because these places were settled after the Roman empire moved out and the Germanic tribes assimilated and interbred with these people rather than exterminating them. There is also a huge Slavic influence from the east.

The part about Asia minor people being the Aesir was Snorri Sturluson trying to give the gods in the Prose Edda a nobler origin than  being demons which the Christians of the time believed they were so it would be palatable to a Christian audience. 

The only real difference between the Vikings and other Germanic people in the later parts of the Dark Ages were that the other Germanics were close in proximity to the Celtic and Latin peoples of western Europe and were Christianized far earlier and developed state apparatuses far earlier (the Germans were forced out of a tribal existence after being conquered by Charlemagne's empire and being turned into feudal serfs by him). Scandinavia was in the Northern periphery of Europe so still retained Germanic paganism and the worship of Thor, Odin, Frey, Tyr and the rest.  

This spread of Germanic culture and genes can be seen from this map.



As you can see the core of Germanic Y DNA is in Scandinavia and spreads throughout Germany and later to England and Eastern Lowland Scotland.

The video below gives a good history of the Germans. Start from 1:06 if you want to get to the point.

I am not denying it, because pre christianity anglo saxon tribes were woden worshippers.

Beowulf novel depicts the entire details about anglo saxon kings.

My point is, if germans of today were worshippers of these central asian ruling classes, as these are german names of those war lords, then, why have they succumbed to jews and have angela merkel as chancellor, who is completely a liberal, feiminist, pro third world immigration?


Germany has the highest number of arabic, syrians and turkish muslim immigrants.

which means, vikings were not born from the INDO EUROPEAN ruling classes, but emulated these gods for strange reasons.

So all proclaim of hitler's nordic supremacy were bullshirt, because, indo europeans were not blue eye blonde haired.

Now I have finally understood the reason for the conversion of the anglo saxons, and finally the scandinavians, as they were warring tribes against each other.

The point about the border being very rigid is this - both of these tribes tried to proclaimed their descendancy from the odin, they both have similar mythos.

however, the talk here clearly has shown that the OLD CENTRAL ASIAN RULING CLASSES did not breed with any girls.

they rather united these regions into their kingdoms, and when their rule got finished, the aristocrats or elite groups, under the CENTRAL ASIAN KINGDOMS, tried to establish their hegemony, and warred against each other.

So all talk of genetics, DNA,bloodlines are non sensical.

Another myth about the Norse religion is that it is pre-Christian.
The earliest vague traces of Odin and Thor are only from the 8th century.

The Saxons that populated England and had the border with Denmark
actually predate the Nordic religion too. The Norse tradition was
only written down for the first time after the clashes with the English,
and the population of Iceland.

And there is a world of difference between waving a flag with a cross
on it, and being able to read or understand the religion itself anyways.

Ethics will always be the division between peoples, regardless of narrative.
The underlying principle in ethics is always fraternity versus domination,
and that is exemplified by open respect between genders.

So its always a case of chivalry versus chauvinism.

Yes, the paganism of Scandinavia is Germanic because the Scandinavians are Germanic and in fact the genesis point of Germanic culture. If your theory about Scandinavian gods being kings from central Asia are true than this would've happened 5,000 years before Snorri Sturluson's Poetic Edda more or less. This would be way before the Scandinavians spread into Germany. When the Scandinavians spread into Germany they would've brought their religion with them (and did as the historical record shows). 

There also seems to be this strange conflation that you and jonbain  are making between "Germanic" and German. Germans are a Germanic people but Germanic people are not necessarily German. The Germans do not call themselves Germans in their native language. They call themselves the Deutsch and their country Deutschland. Germanic is a similar term to "Celtic" or "Slavic", it refers to a broad ethnolinguistic and cultural grouping.

The Irish, Highland Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Breton are Celtic because they have a related language, culture, history, and deities. The term Germanic similarly refers to such a related ethnic grouping. The Germanic peoples speak a Germanic language, descend from Germanic tribes, and worshipped basically the same Germanic gods. These people include the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Germans, Swiss Germans, Austrians, Luxembergers, English, Lowland Scots, Dutch, Flemish, Farose, Icelanders, Frisians, Afrikaners, and these peoples' diaspora across the world. 

The term Aesir is related to the term Asura because the terms have their origins in related concepts in Indo European mythology. The Anglo Saxons in who's Scandinavian cultural origins are being denied by jonbain also worshipped the Aesir. They called them the Ese. They also worshipped the Vanir gods as well calling them the Wen. The giants that the gods fought were called Ettins. Their hero god of thunder Thunor (Thor) liked slaying Ettins with his hammer. They belied in elves and dwarves and a world tree called Irminsul (Yggdrasil) that connected the seven worlds (in compared to the Norsemen's nine) mentioned in the nine herbs charm. simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_mythology

Saying that "Saxon culture" was significantly different than Scandinavian culture in the Viking age is really bizzare from a historical standpoint. 

//The Irish, Highland Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx, and Breton are Celtic because they have a related language, culture, history, and deities. The term Germanic similarly refers to such a related ethnic grouping. The Germanic peoples speak a Germanic language, descend from Germanic tribes, and worshipped basically the same Germanic gods. These people include the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Germans, Swiss Germans, Austrians, Luxembergers, English, Lowland Scots, Dutch, Flemish, Farose, Icelanders, Frisians, Afrikaners, and these peoples' diaspora across the worl//

I am not denying about the europeans not being europeans, as I don't believein the crap what's written in the media, that europeans are migrants and all, and blue eyes blonde hairs came from some african and bullcrap.

It's clear, that europeans ruling classes were always present, with the same blue eyes blond hairs, a paritcular people, whom they worshipped during pre chrisitniasation did come, brought the languages as their dialects, when their rule got over, the european ruling classes again warred against each other.

In 8th century, after arabs conquest, these ruling classes were turned into gods, so as to fight the foreigners. So all those mythlogies of thor and odin.