Christianisation

Sailing as far as to Canada and the Caspian Sea the Vikings warriors, belonging to Norse religion (belief in Aser and Vaner, Odin and Thor, late 700 to mid-900), were pioneers of globalisation. Thus Arian and Celtic Christianity had some influence in Denmark before the official Catholic mission began with the German monk Ansgarius in 826. Approximately 875 the Danish King Harold Bluetooth officially claimed to have Christianize – and at the same time unified - his kingdom ; Denmark and Norway. Christianization and development of the Danish Nation with some common civilisation under one King were two sides of the same process around the turn of the millennium. Local landlords and monks, the second wave of globalisation, build 1800 stone churches between the years 1200 and 1300. At this time – as more or less unto the time of the revivals the 19th century - Christianity was probably first of all a religion from above.