What if...
A Scandinavian competitor to Christianity arose around 850 - 950 BC? At what other time could this religion develop? What would be the results of this new northern religion on the events of the future in Europe? To what extent would this religion spread? How could it influence the Viking presence in North America (or whatever it would be named in TTL)? Would it eventually lose to Christianity anyways? Could it become isolated on the relatively self-sufficient island of Iceland (plus its constituent states in Greenland and North America)? Could it spread south into continental Europe (i.e. Germany, the Netherlands) or east into Russia, or southwest into the British Isles? Any other effects?
Some names to consider:
Uppsalism (after the chief temple in Old Uppsala, Sweden)
Odinism (after the chief god of Scandinavian mythology)
Thorism (after the god of thunder)
Freyism (after the god of prosperity)
A Scandinavian competitor to Christianity arose around 850 - 950 BC? At what other time could this religion develop? What would be the results of this new northern religion on the events of the future in Europe? To what extent would this religion spread? How could it influence the Viking presence in North America (or whatever it would be named in TTL)? Would it eventually lose to Christianity anyways? Could it become isolated on the relatively self-sufficient island of Iceland (plus its constituent states in Greenland and North America)? Could it spread south into continental Europe (i.e. Germany, the Netherlands) or east into Russia, or southwest into the British Isles? Any other effects?
Some names to consider:
Uppsalism (after the chief temple in Old Uppsala, Sweden)
Odinism (after the chief god of Scandinavian mythology)
Thorism (after the god of thunder)
Freyism (after the god of prosperity)
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