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> ~790s β Ongoing Campaigns>
β’ Scattered uprisings & resistance.
β’ Pagan practices increasingly pushed underground.
> 804 β Saxonsβ Final Defeat
β’ Charlemagne's last conquest.
β’ Christianity imposed as the only legal religion.
> ~1080s β King Inge the Elder outlaws sacrifices at Uppsala (Sweden)
β’ Inge refused to support blΓ³ts at the Temple of Uppsala.
β’ Pagans replaced him with Blot-Sweyn; Inge later returned, killed Sweyn, and ended official temple rites.
> 1100sβ1200s β Gotland (Guta Law) bans all pagan practices
β’ BlΓ³ts, offerings, and use of sacred sites (groves, mounds, βstafgarΓ°rβ) explicitly outlawed.
β’ Violation required multiple witnesses and fines.
> 1200s β Sweden, Norway, Denmark codify laws against paganism
β’ Sacred stones, hΓΆrgr, vi, groves, and mounds forbidden as religious spaces.
β’ Sacrificial rites criminalized under Christian law.
> 1600s β Persecution against quiet revival, Christian destruction & societal control
β’ The height of "witch" trials, Scandinavia, Germany & England. (e.g. TorsΓ₯ker 1 June 1675 - 65 women, 2 men, 4 boys: beheaded & burned)
β’ Hardline Christian "enforcement" still dominant.
β’ Sami people & folk pagans persecuted. 1600s-1970s (e.g. Arjeplog trial, 1687)
β’ Christian authorities confiscated sacred drums, outlawed joik (shamanic chanting) legal persecution.
β’ Folk blΓ³t & nature worshippers persecuted.
β’ Trollkyrka & similar sites seen as "active threats" to Christian dominance.
> 1700s-1800s
β’ Age of Enlightenment starts creeping in (rationalism, early secularism).
β’ October 26th, 1668-1779 HΓ€rnΓΆsand Witch Trials, 65 women & 6 men died.
β’ Christian moral control still strong in rural areas.
β’ Some sites like Skaga Stave Church still associated with pagan customs.
β’ Less open executions, more cultural suppression (e.g. Site destruction, forced assimilation).