A Christian History timeline

Conversion of the Vikings

Why Christians used it, why it worked, and why it died.

The story of Erik the Red, his son Leif (the famous explorer) and the most misnamed of Viking Islands

The conversion of Sweden is unspectacular—and for that reason most illuminating.

The stories of three Viking rulers and their encounters with Christianity.

How missionaries' modest beginnings eventually bore fruit in Denmark

At a legislative Althing, a pagan judge prevented civil war in iceland by converting everyone to Christianity.

What runestones and graveyards reveal about the Vikings' conversion process

Besides spiritual solace, Vikings were attracted by Christianity's tangible blessings.