Not all vikings believed in Odin

Описание: Not all vikings believed in Odin: Old Norse religion and Henotheism

In this video, I (briefly) go over Old Norse religion and an insightful article by Terry Gunnel (see below), as well as contemporary Christian sources to argue that a system of henotheism was most likely in practice in Viking Age Scandinavia.

Sources used for this video:
Terry Gunnel, 'Pantheon? What Pantheon? Concepts of a Family of Gods
in Pre-Christian Scandinavian Religions', SCRIPTA ISLANDICA 66 (2015) 55-77.
Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda, translated by Carolyne Larrington (Oxford 2014).
The Poetic Edda, translated by Jackson Crawford (Indianapolis 2015).
Rembertus, Anskar, The Apostle of the North, 801-865: translated from the Vita Anskarii by Bischop Rimbert, his fellow missionary and successor, translation Charles Robinson (London 1921).
Eric Knibbs, Ansgar, Rimbert and the Forged Foundations Hamburg-Bremen (Routledge 2011).
Scott Mellor, ‘St Ansgar: His Swedish Mission and Its Larger Context’ in: Thomas DuBois ed., Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia (Londen 2008) 40-76.
Image Thor's hammer amulet: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

The wonderful art I use for this channel is made by Halfdan Egedius and can be found in the public domain.

For the intro I used clips from the movie 'The Viking' (1928), as well as the manuscript-scans, which are both in the public domain. Music by ‪OB-Lixoriginalmusic‬
https://pixabay.com/pl/users/ob-lix-1... 'Hall of the Slain'.