Keyword: Northern Europe

Anonymous / Unknown

Two humans are sacrificed on this picture. One is drowned in a holy spring and one is burned. The man with a sword symbolizes probably another way of sacrificing of humans. To the right worshipping people. (1555)

from: Olaus Magnus, Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Roma,Giovanni M. Viotto, 1555 (Book 3, Ch. 7, On the Geats’ Worship and Sacrifice, De sacrisi, et sacrificiis Gothorum).

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: GeatsHuman SacrificesNorthern EuropeScandinaviaSweden

Crispijn de Passe 1564-1637

A king sacrifices an animal in front of the statue of Thor (1639)

RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century) 3. Sacrifice and politics (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Animal Sacrifice KingshipNorthern Europe

Fonnesberg-Schmidt, I.

The Popes and the Baltic Crusades 1147-1254

Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Topics:
5. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology and crusades including Reconquista (12^th-20^th Century)

Keywords: CrusadesNorthern Europe

Göding, Heinrich

Saxons worshipping their gods; the deities on a temple structure on l, priests dressed as bishops on r, smoke rising from sacrifices at centre. (1597)

from: Illustration to Peter Albinus, 'Außzug der Eltisten und fürnembsten Historien des uralten streitbarn und beruffenen Volcks der Sachssen ...', (Dresden) 1597. 1597 Hand-coloured etching and letterpress

The British Museum, London

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: FireNorthern EuropePagan SacrificeSaxons

Magnus, Olaus

Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus ... necnon universis pene animalibus in Septentrione degentibus, eorumque natura (Book 3, Ch. 7, On the Geats’ Worship and Sacrifice, De sacrisi, et sacrificiis Gothorum)

Rome: Giovanni M. Viotto, 1555.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Human SacrificesNorthern EuropeScandinavia

Young, F.

in: Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic. Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism, pp.

Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AgricoltureAnimal Sacrifice Northern EuropePagan SacrificePagan SacrificesPaganism