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> ~790s – Ongoing Campaigns>
• Scattered uprisings & resistance.
• Pagan practices increasingly pushed underground.
> 804 – Saxons’ Final Defeat
• Charlemagne's last conquest.
• Christianity imposed as the only legal religion.
> ~1080s – King Inge the Elder outlaws sacrifices at Uppsala (Sweden)
• Inge refused to support blóts at the Temple of Uppsala.
• Pagans replaced him with Blot-Sweyn; Inge later returned, killed Sweyn, and ended official temple rites.
> 1100s–1200s – Gotland (Guta Law) bans all pagan practices
• Blóts, offerings, and use of sacred sites (groves, mounds, “stafgarðr”) explicitly outlawed.
• Violation required multiple witnesses and fines.
> 1200s – Sweden, Norway, Denmark codify laws against paganism
• Sacred stones, hörgr, vi, groves, and mounds forbidden as religious spaces.
• Sacrificial rites criminalized under Christian law.
> 1600s – Persecution against quiet revival, Christian destruction & societal control
• The height of "witch" trials, Scandinavia, Germany & England. (e.g. Torsåker 1 June 1675 - 65 women, 2 men, 4 boys: beheaded & burned)
• Hardline Christian "enforcement" still dominant.
• Sami people & folk pagans persecuted. 1600s-1970s (e.g. Arjeplog trial, 1687)
• Christian authorities confiscated sacred drums, outlawed joik (shamanic chanting) legal persecution.
• Folk blót & nature worshippers persecuted.
• Trollkyrka & similar sites seen as "active threats" to Christian dominance.
> 1700s-1800s
• Age of Enlightenment starts creeping in (rationalism, early secularism).
• October 26th, 1668-1779 Härnösand Witch Trials, 65 women & 6 men died.
• Christian moral control still strong in rural areas.
• Some sites like Skaga Stave Church still associated with pagan customs.
• Less open executions, more cultural suppression (e.g. Site destruction, forced assimilation).