A woodcut depicting the Temple at Uppsala as described by Adam of Bremen, including the golden chain around the temple, the well and the tree, from Olaus Magnus' Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555).
The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in the ancient Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th-century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Theories have been proposed about the implications of the descriptions of the temple and the findings of the archaeological excavations in the area, along with recent findings of extensive wooden structures and log lines that may have played a supporting role to activities at the site, including ritual sacrifice. The temple was destroyed by King Inge the Elder in the 1080s.
The TempleatUppsala was a religious center in the ancient Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested...
Gamla Uppsala. Freyr is also said to have founded two of the central institutions of Iron Age Sweden, the Uppsala öd and the TempleatUppsala: Frey took...
Western Aros). (Old) Uppsala was, according to medieval writer Adam of Bremen, the main pagan centre of Sweden, and the TempleatUppsala contained magnificent...
an important religious and political centre, with both the pagan TempleatUppsala and the Thing of all Swedes in the town. According to the mythological...
peace and pleasure, and was represented with a phallic statue in the TempleatUppsala. According to Snorri Sturluson, Freyr was "the most renowned of the...
(vellir) south of Gamla Uppsala where travellers had to leave the ships on the river Fyris (Fyrisån) and walk to the TempleatUppsala and the hall of the...
restored. At the end of the Viking Age, the pagan templeat Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the north of today's Uppsala, was replaced...
The sacred tree atUppsala was a sacred tree located at the TempleatUppsala, Sweden, in the second half of the 11th century. It is not known what species...
approximately the 5th and the 13th centuries, housing the famous pagan TempleatUppsala and several large burial mounds. The museum building was designed...
Adam of Bremen's 11th-century Latin history describes at length a great templeatUppsalaat which human sacrifices regularly took place, and containing...
localised to Sweden and Old Uppsala, where he founded the TempleatUppsala: The Ynglinga saga: Frey built a great templeat Upsal, made it his chief seat...
Canada and concluded on April 28, 2013, consisting of nine episodes. It begins at the start of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793, and follows...
by King Sweyn Estridsen: That folk has a very famous temple called Uppsala . . . . In this temple, entirely decked out in gold, the people worship the...
mention of a sacred tree at Þingvellir in Iceland, but that Adam of Bremen describes a huge tree standing next to the TempleatUppsala in Sweden, which remained...
heathen shrine about which there is detailed information is the great templeatUppsala in modern Sweden, which was described by the German chronicler Adam...
with Olof Verelius (1618–1682) over the location of the TempleatUppsala. He argued that the temple should be found near the current location of Helga Trefaldighets...
"mightiest", sits in the TempleatUppsala in the center of a triple throne (flanked by Woden and "Fricco") located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. Adam details...
deities. An important religious centre was the TempleatUppsala. The shape and location of this temple is sparsely documented, but it is referenced in...
Adam describes as "mightiest", sat enthroned in the TempleatUppsala (located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden) flanked by Wodan (Odin) and "Fricco". Regarding...
to carry out the public sacrifice to the Norse gods, presumably at the TempleatUppsala, and was consequently deposed. He "left the Thing in joy, for having...
Global Information