Odin

As Christianity triumphed in country after country in its march across Europe in the first millennium, the Nordic countries remained resistant to its allure. Christianity did eventually take over in Scandinavia, but up until just a little over 1,000 years ago, during the Viking Age, the old Norse gods continued to reign supreme. The stigma attached to paganism elsewhere took a long time to take root in the Norse region, which reveals how important that worldview was for the ancient Viking culture and its forerunners. Norway was among the very last countries to convert to Christianity, and that makes it an ideal case study for gaining a greater understanding of the pagan worldview as it existed at the end of