Pagan Portals--Thor by Morgan Daimler

Author:Morgan Daimler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2020-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

End Notes

1 Jacob Grimm is a useful source but also can be problematic and must be understood in the proper context. Grimm was writing late in the 19th century during a period when scholarship was not as rigorous as it is today. An author could write a great deal of supposition or tenuously supported theories without needing to use supporting texts or references and this is also a time period where we see a great deal of folklore recorded by wealthy academics who were not directly part of the culture or subcultures they were recording; rather they wrote as outside observers and often retold rather than directly recorded. Grimm is a reasonably reliable source for the time period but it must be kept in mind that some of what he says is found no where else except in his writings.

2 This is especially true of Orkney but because Norse influence there was so profound that area will be addressed separately in a subsequent section.

3 To describe the conversion period among the Norse areas as uneasy is perhaps a bit too much of an understatement. While the Celtic language areas converted peacefully – so much so that the concept of white martyrdom was created to allow people to still have that goal even in areas without violence – the Norse areas were much more violent. McNeill retells an account of Olaf Tryggvason, the king of Norway, travelling to Orkney and threatening its ruler; Earl Sigurd was told he and his people could convert or Olaf would put them all to the sword. Sigurd initially refused, saying that he would not go against his ancestral beliefs, but when Olaf raised his sword to follow through with his threat Sigurd relented (McNeill, 1956).

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