020 A New Religion

The Scandinavian History Podcast - A podcast by Mikael Shainkman - Fridays

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Various European rulers started to send missionaries to Scandinavia already before the violent Viking raids really became a thing. But it was slow going in the first century or so. Even though a handful of Scandinavians did switch to Jesus, Christianity only took off when local kings started to put pressure on their subjects to be baptized.