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Suite au documentaire vu en classe, je voulais savoir comment la Norvège était passée au Christianisme et avait abandonnée ses croyances.

Le Luthérianisme en Norvège

According to the saga: Olav Tryggvason returned to Norway. and an extensive and difficult quest awaited him - to convert the extended and sparsely populated country to the Christian faith.

The consequences of his last voyage to England were dramatic. Historians disagree about much, but none deny that Olav Tryggvason became a zealous Christian. Faith in the Christian God dominated his life after his baptism, and Norway has never fostered a more powerful missionary. The heathens were to be won for Jesus.

People had to be influenced for 200 years before Norway was completely Christianized, and the methods used were not haphazard.

The sagas tell us that Olav Tryggvason built a wooden church by the cave where St. Sunniva was found. What happened? There are several versions, but they don't differ radically.

Sunniva was a king's daughter from Ireland, where Christianity had made early inroads. To escape betrothal to a heathen chieftain, she fled eastward in a boat lacking sails and oars. She landed on the island of Selja, but an attempt to kill her, or at least expel her, was made by heathens lead by the Viking Håkon Jarl. He was opposed to newcomers. She and her men were forced to hide in a cave on the island. The refugees prayed to God to send angels to break down the mountain and bury them, and the rocks tumbled down. Their souls soared to heaven in a spire of light which all on the mainland could see, and a sweet fragrance permeated the air.

Olav Tryggvason heard about this. In 996 he exhumed the bones of the martyrs, and he found Sunniva's corpse unscathed. It was placed in a casket and later brought to Bergen with the diocese, in 1170. Selja was the first bishopric in West Norway, despite the fact that Rome preferred to have its dioceses in towns and cities. Researcher Kjell Bondevik says that the Sunniva crypt became a goal for pilgrimages for centuries - it even attracted more tourists than Selja does today. Miracles were said to have occurred when pilgrims visited the place where the foreign martyrs died. Now the foreigners' faith is our faith, their culture is our culture.

London, 994 A.D. Kneeling at the baptismal font is Olav Tryggvason, a Norwegian-born Viking. Twice, he and his men have conquered Southeast England, and twice King Ethelred of England had to pay a huge ransom to get the Vikings to return their spoils. But now Olav Tryggvason has become a Christian - the English have finally been freed from the Viking raids.

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