Vikings belief in many myths and many ideas of their creation, They believe in many gods, such as Odin, Thor and Freya. They believe in afterlife but in a similar manner to the belief of the ancient Greeks. The Vikings belief that when a person dies, his soul would go to a place called ‘hel’ which was then called ’hell’ by modern people. The Vikings believe that this place was a very cold and damp underground place where souls of the dead were kept.
Odin, The god of the vikingsVikings in relation to Stonehenge
Vikings belief that the Stonehenge is an ancient sun temple. At certain rituals, Vikings would do sacred dances in the Stonehenge which portraits the earth’s orbit around the sun. The dances that the Vikings acted was told in stories and customs of Swedes, Danes, North Germans and English.
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