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See more at https://mediashm.ru The Viking Age is famous for its heroic stories and archaeological artifacts, and interest in Viking culture contributed to the popularization of Scandinavian mythology. Odin, Valhalla, Valkyries, runes - all this became part of popular culture, but still, mythology is only part of the whole system. Religion occupied an important place in the lives of the Vikings, conditioned their actions and inspired them to feats. The religious world of Ancient Scandinavia, and above all the cult of Odin, occupied a dominant place in the religion of the Scandinavians of the Viking Age. Lecturer: Ivan Negreev, religious scholar, senior lecturer of the Department of Religious Studies of the Russian Pedagogical University of St. John the Theologian