When did Britain and the rest of Europe cease to be Odinist?
The first of our Northern countries to succumb to the false promises of the new religion were the Goths, in the fourth century of the Christian era; the Icelanders became Christians by official decree in the year 1000 CE, to be followed by the Scandinavian countries over the next two hundred years. England was “converted” between 597 and 686 CE and Scotland somewhat earlier (although some of the people of Ross-shire were still worshipping the old Gods as late as the seventeenth century). Ireland, when Patrick the Proselytizer landed there in the year 432, was described as “a heathen land”; Dublin and the other principal Irish towns were actually founded by Odinist Vikings, who dedicated the country to the god Thor.
