Paganism by Davies Owen;

Author:Davies, Owen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

6. Pagan natives of the island of ‘Enfer’ (Hell), the French description of Tenerife, from Le Canarien, a French chronicle of an expedition to the Canary Islands in 1402

7. Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555). Magnus’s History of the Northern People depicts the idolatrous animistic worship of the peoples of the Arctic region

As for the Swedish and Danish kingdoms (the latter included Norway), there were pagans much closer to home who also required attention. The religious beliefs of the Saami, whose territory stretched across Arctic Scandinavia, had been brought to wide attention in the mid-16th century by an account of them published in a book entitled The History of the Northern People (1555). Its author, Olaus Magnus, was the last Catholic bishop in Sweden before the country became Lutheran. It was not until the late 17th century, though, that a mix of ethnographic curiosity and missionary zeal led to a concerted attempt both to understand and suppress Saami religion, and what was described as their ‘idolatry’, ‘sorcery’, and ‘superstition’. In 1685, a Swedish Royal Edict instituted a systematic attempt to eradicate the drums used by Saami shamans. Norwegian missionaries were also particularly active in the early 18th century seeking out and destroying the sacred sites of the Saami.

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