Pre-Christian Religions of the North UiO Conference

05/04/2024

Today at 13:00 (GMT+2) we'll be kicking off the third UiO Student Conference on Pre-Christian Religions of the North featuring talks on Viking Boat Burials, Slavic Pagan Eschatology, Magical Pagan Objects from Frisia, Bronze-Age Stone Carvings and much more!

Livestreaming on Youtube - livestream will begin between 13:00-13:15 (GMT+2)

In this third instalment of the University of Oslo's Student Conference on the beliefs of the Pre-Christian Germanic peoples we have speakers from across Eur...

14/02/2024

LIVE! Watch Mags' excellent lecture on the Lejre Burial here!

Mags Knepper of the University of Iceland and the University of Oslo presents "A-HEAD of it's time: Revisiting the Lejre Burial" at the Pre-Christian Religio...

24/01/2024

Quick snapshot of the other side of the camera from our November 2023 conference, featuring several of our fantastic speakers listening to Tom's talk on "Towards a Pagan Ontology."

20/01/2024

Watch the ENTIRE November 2023 UiO Student Conference here:

In this second instalment of the University of Oslo's Student Conference on the beliefs of the Pre-Christian Germanic peoples we have speakers from across Eu...

17/01/2024

Hilbert Vinkenoog gives an overview of Early Medieval Paganism in Frisia in March 2023:

In the Early Middle Ages, Frisia in its broadest extent was the geographic area encompassing the coastal areas of parts of Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany ...

13/01/2024

One more from our 2023 conference, where Jonathan Fischler took the 1928 classic "The Viking" and its portrayal of paganism under inspection:

How is paganism from the Viking Age depicted in films? How much has it changed over time? Is it still portrayed by men in horned helmets as in Wagner's opera...

10/01/2024

Back from our first UiO Student Conference in March 2023, Tom Kaye's talk on Odinnic Warbands and states of ecstasy can be seen in full, here:

Óðinn/Odin to the Norse, Wodan to the continental Saxons and Woden to the Anglo-Saxons and Frisians - who was this one-eyed god of poetry, wisdom, war, and k...

08/01/2024

Hi all! Last year we hosted two student conferences on the Pre-Christian Religions of the North at the University of Oslo. This page will serve as an outlet for future conferences, links to videos of previous lectures, as well as being a forum for feedback from the public. Welcome!