Features Vikings: Paganism and Organized Religion John offers a personal look at a key thematic conflict running throughout The History Channel's Vikings. Spoilers ...

Home Culture & Life Features Vikings creator Michael Hirst on violent warriors, historical drama, and pagan religions The man who created The Tudors travels even further into the past with History ...

Vikings are often seen as heathen marauders mercilessly targeting Christian churches and killing defenceless monks. But this is only part of their story. The Vikings played a key role in spreading ...

According to Sherman, the Vikings began converting from their traditional pagan belief system in the Norse gods to Christianity after it arrived in Scandinavia in the 11th century.

The show doesn’t hide from religion and explores the Roman-Catholic faith in Europe and the pagan Norse gods — often portrayed in hallucinatory interactions between God and men.

We see the eagle flying off at the end; that’s his soul. I hope that the show has vested people in a Viking point of view. It does take religious belief seriously. It takes Pagan belief seriously.

Across the lands of the frozen north, the Norse “gods” are returning. Nordic paganism is now Iceland’s fastest-growing religion. From 570 members in 2002, the “association of the faith of ...