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Talking Nordic Animism | Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen

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The Origins of Christianity in the Nordics

Danish variant of Christianity is aware of where it's situated. Do they allocate a certain reality to Nordic mythological stories that other Christianity's wouldn't because officially, you know, it's all erroneous he the nonsense and Christ is the light? Well, I think to some extent it was a ritual thing. Sometimes they would sacrifice people in bugs and hang them in. That was the joke. We did it in Sunday school. No,. not in the kind of for an Odin and Loki exists way that much. The idea in this kind of Christianity, it's called the Gevond Bijianism. They actually thought about the Edda as the Old Testament of Europe. And so

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