How the Norse Became Christian

Started with the conversion of king harald bluetooth, and converting to christianity did not have just religious meaning, but also ,access to power.

norse-mythology.org/the-vikings-conversion-to-christianity/

I am inclined to reckon that the Norse mythos itself was actually a reaction to potential Christian conversion.

Before the actual conversion, there were certainly numerous failed attempts. Fearing a loss in power

to the middle-eastern ideology, its likely that Scandinavians constructed the Skald to compensate.

There are numerous elements in the Skald that actually seem to have originated from Christianity.



For instance the first man and woman are called: Ash and Elm. (Adam and Eve) The sacred tree: Yggdrasil

has a very similar symbolism to the tree of life, and even Baldur's death is an echo of the Crucifixion.

Helheim is hell. The resonance is vast beyond this too.



Of course the Skald seems to also echo the Greek mythos, and some would have it that the ancestors

of the Vikings were actually the refugees of Troy. If you look at ship-building, there is a clear similarity

with the Greek vessels too; so this is very likely.



Its possible that a smattering of Greek mythos eventually became solidified as a 'religion' in the 8th century.

The Saxons of England would have already migrated before adopting this new post-Christian religion.

Not the greek, but what icelandic poet has wrtiten was this, about the ancestors of NORSEMEN:


The Prologue is the first section of four books of the Edda, consisting of an euhemerized Christian account of the origins of Nordic mythology: the Nordic gods are described as human Trojan warriors who left Troy after the fall of that city (an origin similar to the one chosen by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century to account for the ancestry of the British nation, and which parallels Virgil's Aeneid). According to Edda, these warriors settled in northern Europe, where they were accepted as divine kings because of their superior culture and technology.

You are spot on, by saying that these mythos were a reconstruction to the response of christian conversion by people, and may be, only elite classes were doing it.

And from there, the vague reference of Thor and Odin. Mythos of thors become more prominent when vikings were on the voyage to discover america.

Were not these people colonized by romans, who were siphoning their girls, before arminius fought a battle, with sarmatians? Though he was killed

And for that matter, it were the huns, under attila and uldin/odin who fought romans, what were these germans doing anyways?

Uh huh, i'll just go with the scholarly consensus on the subject over what some mystic on the internet states. Nobody here is talking about "greater Germanism" because once again your equating German with Germanic showing a complete lack of understanding of what these words mean. German is the English word for Deutsche which is what they call themselves in their own language. The Deutsche are just one of many different Germanic peoples. The fact that they're called German in English is a coincidence of the English language. 

Regarding the English language not being Germanic because it has more French words than Germanic ones. That's not how language classification works dude. A language is classified on more than just the words it has. There's also the grammatical structure of the language, phonology, and the family tree from which the language spawned among many many other factors which determine its linguistic family. The English language has its origin in the language of the Anglo Saxons and was modified greatly by the Normans but still retains the grammatical structure of the Germanic languages and still sprang from the Germanic family tree. 

Your also trying to deny the existence of the Germanic language family which is bizarre to say the least. But this whole conversation has been bizarre to me. You seem to deny reality and substitute your own motivated by some kind of weird anti Germanism. 

As for your insinuations that i'm some sort of racist or Hitler lover let me tell you this. Living through apartheid doesn't give you free reign to go around accusing others of racism when they disagree with you because you deny well substantiated facts. You whine about my flag but you're South African, you know absolutely nothing about the flag in my profile picture or the cultural context in which a man from the the American South displays it. Stay in your lane and stop speaking about things you know nothing about.

Deacon Frost is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He appears in The Tomb of Dracula, and is an enemy of Blade. In the comics, Deacon Frost was depicted as a tall, white-haired, late middle-aged gentleman with red eyes, and wearing 1860s Germany period clothing. His doppelgänger sported an accent and attire that suggested a Southern preacher.

May be, he is Odin!!!!!

names that mean friend