Saga of Hákon the Good credits King Haakon I of Norway with the Christianization of Norway, as well as rescheduling the date of Yule to coincide with Christian celebrations held at the time.

Roderick Long writes: " Byock contrasts the prolonged and violent civil strife which attended Christianization in Norway with its relatively swift and peaceful Icelandic analogue.

During the Christianization of Norway, King Olaf ordered male völva s ( seid men ) tied and left on a skerry at ebb, resulting in a protracted death by drowning and the securing of Christian hegemony in the Norwegian kingdom.

The process of Christianization began in Norway during the reigns of Olaf Tryggvason ( reigned 995 AD-c. 1000 AD ) and Olaf II Haraldsson ( reigned 1015 AD-1030 AD ).

Alypius was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Julian's systematic attempt to reverse the Christianization of the Roman Empire by restoring pagan and, in this case, Jewish practices.

Ansgar was a product of the phase of Christianization of

However, throughout Germanic tradition, given names which contain elf as an element are frequently attested, suggesting that the malevolent or evil image of elves in West Germanic tradition was a secondary development, reinforced by Christianization.

Bede was interested primarily in the Christianization of England, but since Æthelberht was the first Anglo-Saxon king to convert to Christianity, Bede provides more substantial information about him than about any earlier king.

Various plants in Scandinavia once bore her name, but it was replaced with the name of the Virgin Mary during the process of Christianization.

During the subsequent Christianization of the area by Otto of Bamberg, a St. Mary's church was built.

The Catholic Theodelinda was a friend of Pope Gregory I and pushed for Christianization.

The most common name of the supreme deity is Perun and was identified with the Christian God after Christianization.

According to it, it was the attack of the Margrave that forced the Christianization, which was to be an act of subordination to the Emperor, done without the mediation of the Pope.

For centuries before the Christianization of Poland, Poznań ( consisting of a fortified stronghold between the Warta and Cybina rivers, on what is now Ostrów Tumski ) was an important cultural and political centre of the Polan tribe.

Yule was an indigenous midwinter ( winter solstice ) festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples, absorbed into celebrations surrounding Christmas over time with Christianization.

The Yule log has frequently been associated with having its origins in the historical Germanic paganism which was practiced across northern Europe prior to Christianization.

Harald Bluetooth, Gorm's son and Cnut's grandfather, was the Danish king at the time of the Christianization of Denmark.

According the German chronicler Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, the decades long forced Germanization and Christianization of the Slavs associated with these two churches was the reason for their destruction.

The successes of the Empire's Christianization policy towards the Slavs were nullified, and the political control over the Billung March and the Northern March ( territories east of the Elbe ) was lost.

The condition underlying this alliance was to open the country for Christianization and acculturation from the Byzantine Empire.

Of far-reaching importance was Basil's decision to offer the hand of his sister Anna to Vladimir I of Kiev in exchange for military support, which led to the Christianization of the Kievan Rus ', and the incorporation of Russia within the Byzantine cultural sphere.

This was the starting point of Christianization of the Czech people, and the diocese of Regensburg became the mother diocese of Prague.

Christianization was fostered by the Asturian kings, who did not base their power on the indigenous religious traditions ( unlike other medieval European kings, e. g. Penda of Mercia or Widukind ), but on the texts of the Christian Sacred Scriptures ( particularly, the books of Revelation, Ezekiel and Daniel ) and the Fathers of the Church, which furnished the new monarchy with its foundational myths.

As slavery was prohibited between Christians, and could only be imposed in non-Christian prisoners of war or on men already sold as slaves, the debate on Christianization was particularly acute during the 16th century.

The process of Christianization was at first violent: when the first Franciscans arrived in Mexico in 1524, they burned the places dedicated to pagan cult, alienating much of the local population.

In the late 8th century, the Vipava Valley was included in the Frankish Empire and the Christianization of Slovenes started.

From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.

The indirect " Christianization " of Superman in the Reeve films ( admitted by film producer Pierre Spengler on the DVD commentaries ) has provoked comment on the Jewish origins of Superman.

The observance of Christmas developed gradually over the centuries, beginning in ancient times ; combining old pagan customs with the religious ones introduced after the Christianization of Poland by the Catholic Church.

Newer present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world ; Buddhist missions to East Asia ; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent ; and the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe and India.

Jogaila's baptism and the crowning as the King of Poland in 1386 were followed by the final and official Christianization of Lithuania.

The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia from the 1220s gives a firsthand account of the Christianization of Livonia, granted as a fief by the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor, de facto but not known as the King of Germany, Philip of Swabia, to Bishop Albert of Buxthoeven, nephew of the Hartwig II, Archbishop of Bremen, who sailed with a convoy of ships filled with armed crusaders to carve out a Catholic territory in the east during the Livonian Crusade.

At the same time, the baptism decreased the likelihood of future attacks by German margraves and deprived them of the opportunity to attempt Christianization of Mieszko's lands by force.

Christianity itself has been perceived at times as a form of polytheism by followers of the other Abrahamic religions because of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( which at first glance appears indistinguishable from Tritheism, though this is variously condemned as heresy or apostasy by the main Christian denominations ) or the celebration of Pagan feast days and other practices – through a process described as " baptizing " or " Christianization ".

This may have parallels with the Christianization of the Rus ', as reported by Patriarch Photius in 867.

With Christianization, the festival in November ( not the Roman festival in May ) became All Hallows ' Day on November 1 followed by All Souls ' Day, on November 2.

The legend has been interpreted as a traditional folk tale which has been subjected to Christianization where the familiar story of the seduction of a human being by an elf or fairy leads to the delights of the fairy-realm but later the longing for his earthly home is overwhelming.

The Saints Konstantin ( i. e. Cyril ) and Methodius, sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III to complete the Christianization of the kingdom, created there the first written Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, written in the Glagolitic alphabet.

Christianization however remained for long influenced by eastern and Byzantine culture.

* the final phase of Antiquity is the period of Christianization during the later 4th to early 6th centuries, taken to be complete with the closure of the Neoplatonic Academy by Justinian I in 529 AD.

" A dangerously pagan work ," the Metamorphoses was preserved through the Roman period of Christianization, but was criticized by the voices of Augustine and Jerome, who believed the only metamorphosis really was the transubstantiation.

Tongva / Gabrieliño / Fernandeño oral literature is relatively little known, due to their early ( 1770s ) Christianization by Spanish missions in California.

The heart of Western Europe itself had been stabilized after the Christianization of the Saxon, Viking, and Hungarian peoples by the end of the 10th century.

At this time, Christianization by the missionaries Liudger and Willehad started ; one part of East Frisia became a part of the diocese of Bremen, the other the diocese of Münster.