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	Temple at Uppsala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Midwinter blót (at the Temple at Uppsala), by Carl Larsson (1915)
		Some believe that the temple was confused with the hall of the Swedish kings (located some tens of metres to the north of the present church).
		The Temple at Uppsala was probably destroyed by King Ingold I in 1087 during the last known battle between the pagans and the Christians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala (1591 words)

	Uppsala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County (Uppsala län), and Sweden's ecclesiastical centre, being the seat of Sweden's archbishop since 1164.
		In 1274, Östra Aros overtook Gamla Uppsala as the main regional center, and when the cathedral of Gamla Uppsala burnt down, the archbishopric was moved to Östra Aros, and the impressive Uppsala cathedral erected.
		Uppsala Cathedral is built in the Gothic style and is one of the largest in northern Europe, with towers reaching 118 metres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uppsala (745 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gamla Uppsala
		Gamla Uppsala is an area rich in archaeological remains seen from the grave field whose larger mounds (left part) are close to the royal mounds.
		Gamla Uppsala lies on a cultivated plain in the valley of the River Fyris (the plain was formerly called Fyrisvellir) which is densely populated in its southern part, while the northern part consists of farms.
		Klingmark, Elisabeth: Gamla Uppsala, Svenska kulturminnen 59, Riksantikvarieämbetet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gamla-Uppsala (495 words)

	Temple at Uppsala - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The chief controversies are exactly where in Old Uppsala the temple was located and whether or not it was a building.
		Churches were usually built on top of previous pagan temples, and during an excavation of the church, the remains of one, and possibly several, large wooden buildings were found.
		At last he left them and betook himself to Hakon, the tyrant of Denmark, because when stationed at Upsala, at the time of the sacrifices, he was disgusted by the effeminate gestures and the clapping of the mimes on the stage, and by the unmanly clatter of the bells.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Temple_at_Uppsala (1533 words)

	Ancient Uppsala
		This is were the supposed 'golden covered temple' should have been located, as described amongst others by Adam of Bremen and Snorri Sturluson.
		Uppsala was former called Östra Aros (East Aros) and this place is in fact historically known from sources older than the ones that identify Gamla Uppsala.
		Gamla Uppsala holds several mounds, of which the most famous, the three great mounds known as the kings mounds are visible from far away.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ub/Ubsola.html (2549 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites (as in masonry).
		The First Temple was built in the 10th century BCE under King Solomon to replace the Tabernacle and was destroyed by the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BCE, marking the beginning of the Babylonian exile.
		The Second Temple was constructed after the return from the Babylonian exile, from around 536 BCE to 515 BCE.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/temple (605 words)

	Uppsala
		It is the fourth largest city in Sweden and the administrative centre for Uppsala County.
		Uppsala Cathedral is built in the Gothic style and is one of the largest in northern Europe, with towers reaching 119 metres.
		Uppsala is also the site of a 16th century royal castle.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/up/uppsala.html (238 words)

	Norse paganism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gamla Uppsala, the centre of worship in Sweden until the temple was destroyed the late 11th century.
		Adam of Bremen claims that there was a temple in Uppsala (see Temple at Uppsala) with three wooden statues of Thor, Odin and Freyr.
		This priestly role of the king was in line with the general role of godi, who was the head of a kindred group of families (for this social structure, see norse clans), and who administered the sacrifices.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norse_religion (1244 words)

	Study Abroad & Cultural Immersion with Languages Abroad - Uppsala Activities & Excursions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Uppsala is a beautiful and lively city during the summer.
		Uppsala, the fourth largest town in Sweden, has the charm of a small town as well as the opportunities of a big city.
		The dominating landmarks in Uppsala are the large cathedral (Domkyrkan) and the castle, both situated in the center of town.
	www.languagesabroad.com /countries/uppsalaact.html (709 words)

	Götaland theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Generally, all views opposing the official Svealand theory might at times be grouped under this term, though not necessarily suggesting that the province Västergötland was the origin of Sveas and the location of Ubsola.
		This is where the supposed 'golden covered temple' should have been located, as described amongst others by Adam of Bremen and Snorri Sturluson.
		Among the proponents of this theory, a debate is held as to whether the heathen temple was located in Gamla Uppsala, or in Uppsala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_Uppsala (2076 words)

	Heathen Temple at Uppsala
		A large tree with spreading branches stands near the temple.
		a sacred grove that is adjacent to the temple.
		Old Uppsala was an important cultural, political, and economic center in pre-Christian Scandinavia.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/uppsala.html (689 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Temple [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		A Hindu and Buddhist temple in Cambodia and Thailand is known as a wat.
		The temple is the side of the head behind the eyes.
		The muscle whose origin is the temple and whose insertion is the jaw is called "temporalis".
	encyclozine.com /Temples (404 words)

	Johannes Schefferus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Schefferus came from a patrician Strassburg family (Scheffer), studied at university there and briefly in Leiden, and was in 1648 made professor Skytteanus of eloquence and government at Uppsala University, a chair he held until his death in 1679.
		He was late in life involved in an intellectual dispute with (in particular) Olof Verelius (1618-1682) over the localation of the Temple at Uppsala.
		He argued that the temple should be found near the current location of Helga Trefaldighets kyrka (Church of the Holy Trinity) in Uppsala.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Johannes_Schefferus (288 words)

	Semester at Uppsala University in Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In the winter of 2003, I had the opportunity to participate in a study abroad program through the University of Michigan at Uppsala University in Sweden (incidentally, the home of Carolus Linnaeus, the "Father of Taxonomy").
		The cathedral of Uppsala, originally constructed in the thirteenth century after the missionary Ansgar's destruction of the pagan temple.
		Gammla Uppsala - The three largest mounds at Gammla Uppsala, an ancient viking burial ground situated approximately 5 km outside of town.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~kbirkett/photos/uppsala (583 words)

	Hurstwic: Pagan Religious Practices of the Norse
		Their blood was sprinkled on the walls of the temple, as well as on the participants in the feast.
		The meat was boiled in cauldrons in the temple and eaten at the feast.
		While it's not clear that the designers and builders of this modern temple had any special insight into how pagan temples were built during the Norse era, it is fun to see all the motifs from the various temple descriptions brought together into one structure.
	www.hurstwic.org /history/articles/mythology/religion/text/practices.htm (5088 words)

	GerRitWor
		Also, there is the famous description by Adam of Bremen of the tree outside Óðinn's temple in Uppsala, Sweden, which displays the bodies of human and animal sacrifices.
		Even the "great temples" of Uppsala, Sweden, described by Adam of Bremen apparently were rather small, ordinary buildings.
		Archeological efforts to locate the remains of the temples have met with little success, suggesting that they are sufficiently nondescript in size that they do not stand out.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/jmstitt/Eng480/gerritwor.html (666 words)

	Viking Answer Lady Webpage - Sacred Space in Viking Law and Religion
		Temple buildings were also much used in the Viking Age, though little is known of their appearance.
		There are descriptions of fairly elaborate temples in Scandinavia in saga literature, but these were written relatively late, and may have been influenced by accounts of pagan temples in the Old Testament or Virgil, or by familiarity with large medieval churches of stone.
		The reconstructed Uppsala temple model to be seen in Scandinavian museums was based largely on the ground plan of a Wendish temple at Arcona, destroyed by the Danes in the twelfth century and described in detail by Saxo Grammaticus, which was reconstructed by Schuchardt in 1921 (Ellis-Davidson.
	www.vikinganswerlady.com /sacspace.shtml (5841 words)

	Uppsala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Uppsala was a great heathen temple located in Sweden.
		When the temple at Uppsala became occupied by Christians in the twelfth century, it was the symbolic end of the old paleopagan faith.
		I have named this online temple Uppsala in honor of the temple that was, in honor of the time we find ourselves in now: the renaissance of our people.
	www.winterscapes.com /uppsala/main.htm (367 words)

	Fornsigtuna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was an Iron Age and Medieval royal estate (see Uppsala öd) and it was located strategically at the waterway to Old Uppsala and the Temple at Uppsala.
		The pope demands that they return to the archbishop of Uppsala (until 1270 the name referred to Gamla Uppsala) the villages Strom (Ström in the parish of Norrsunda), Fornesitune and Guazbro (probably Vadsbro).
		In 1299, Birger Magnusson, the son of Magnus Ladulås, spent some time in Old Sigtuna as one of his letters was written in Sightonia Antiqua (in Malmberg, Ernst: Svenska slott och herresäten) or apud antiquam Sightoniam (Friesen: Om staden Sigtunas ålder).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sithun (888 words)

	Sacrifice - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Sacrificed goods actually become part of a religious organisation's revenue; it is a part of the economic base of support that compensates priests and supports temples.
		The sacrifice is actually a part of a festival and is ultimately consumed by the followers themselves; often this includes an element of redistribution where the poor get a larger share than they contributed.
		Here they found a the sacrifice of a teenager which was interupted by the temple collapsing on the participants due to the tectonic activitity at the time.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Sacrifice (1599 words)

	Read about Fyrisvellir at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Fyrisvellir and learn about Fyrisvellir here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gamla Uppsala where travellers had to leave the ships and walk to the
		Temple at Uppsala and the hall of the Swedish king.
		Old Norse Fyrva which meant "to ebb" and it referred to the partially inundated soggy plains that today are dry farmland and the modern town of Uppsala.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Fyrisvellir (283 words)

	Ancient Uppsala (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Whereas there exist several places in Sweden bearing the name Uppsala, the original seating of the tribe of Sveas as well as the mythic place for the old Swedish pagan culture of Asas is mostly believed to have been located in GamlaUppsala (Old Uppsala), just outside the modern city of Uppsala.
		Within the forespokers of this theory, a debate is held as to whether the heathen temple was located in Gamla Uppsala, or in Uppsala.
		Gamla Uppsala holds several mounds, of which the most famous, thethree great mounds known as the kings' mounds are visible from far away.
	www.therfcc.org /ancient-uppsala-290130.html (2427 words)

	Anund Uppsale - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		He is probably called Uppsale because he stayed at Gamla Uppsala, the religious centre.
		Adam of Bremen relates that a king named Anund accepted the faith and was driven away after refusing to sacrifice at the Temple at Uppsala.
		Sometime in the 840s, Anund returns to Sweden with a large Danish host of 21 longships and 11 of his own, because Anund had promised them rich plunder in Birka, and they arrived when Björn at Hauge was far away.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Anund_Uppsale (328 words)

	Secrets of Heathen Time-Keeping
		Three Gods were idolized in the famous temple of Uppsala, Sweden as shown in the artist's impression above.
		The temple of Uppsala, a great wooden building with a golden roof, was destroyed early in the twelfth century.
		By the accounts of Adam of Bremen, as well as other Christian missionaries, heathen ceremonies called the Disablots, dedicated to Odin, were practiced every eight years, even though Adam misunderstood this to be nine years.
	www.geocities.com /suntheorem/soma.htm (1796 words)

	Encyclopedia: Temple at Uppsala
		Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) 59Â°51â€² N 17Â°38â€² E is a Swedish City in central Sweden, located about 70 km north of Stockholm.
		Norse gods Divided between the Æsir and the Vanir, and sometimes including Jotun, the dividing line between these groups is less than clear.
		As a replacement for the heathen gods, Uppsala was made into a strong Christian centre: a bishop was soon consecrated, and in 1164 Uppsala was made into an archdiocese, with the first Archbishop of Uppsala and Sweden was a monk from Alvastra being consecrated Archbishop Stefan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Temple-at-Uppsala (392 words)

	Gamla Uppsala \| Travel Story and Pictures from Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Gamla Uppsala, Swedish for Old Uppsala, is the place where a settlement was built in the 5th century AD.
		It nowadays consists of several mounds, or burial hills, and a cathedral which was built on the spot of a former pagan temple.
		For centuries, people carried his shrine in procession from Gamla Uppsala to Uppsala, this path turned to become Eric's path and can still be walked all the way to Uppsala.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/europe/gamlauppsala.shtml (302 words)

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