Scandinavia: Viking Paganism

Viking is a Norwegian speaker who lived in the 8th and 11th centuries, mainly in Scandinavia. They are skillful seafarers who robbed and burned civilization in the rivers and coastal areas of Europe and Asia since the late 1970s. They trade, navigate, explore in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans, and opened trade routes between Europe and the Mediterranean. In the meantime, some people settled in the kingdoms they were exploring, England, Ireland, North France and Russia.

Religion has great influence on Viking art, not political situation or commercial activity. In the 9th century, Scandinavia was a heathen, and its inhabitants worshiped pagan gods such as Odin, Tall, Frey. They are often, but not consistently hunting and filling their dead with various serious items. A genuine or symbolic ship is often associated with a grave to carry the dead to his spiritual journey. Unfortunately, for archaeologists, the arrival of Christianity ended the burial of property, but Viken continued to fill the gold and silver boughs.

The romantic movement of the 18th century brought about the re-discovery of old Gaelic languages ​​and ancient Northern European literature and poetry. In the 19th century, the Victorian resurrection of Viking gathered interest in Germanic pagogy in the UK and Scandinavian regions. In Germany, the Folkish movement is getting full swing. These pagan tendencies are consistent with Romantic attention to folklore and mysticism, the widespread emergence of paganism in popular literature, and the rise of nationalism. "The emergence of contemporary pagans is not only a result and measure of religious freedom in modern society and the increasingly permissive religious diversity but also suppresses the oppressive force during Christian obedience and participation Freedom and tolerance achieved by doing, in other words, modern paganism is one of happy children of modern multiculturalism and social pluralism. "