Viața creștină în Danemarca până în secolul al XII-lea
The Christian living in Denmark up to the 17th century

Summary/Abstract: Denmark was more closely in contact with Germany, and therefore with the Christian world, than any other part of Scandinavia. It was there, naturally, that Christianity made its first hopeful entries. Anskar had been able to found a certain number of Churches in Denmark. But the presure of evangelization could not be maintained, and the life of Church was uncertain. At the beginning of the tenth century a powerful king named Gorm decided to exclude Christianity completely from his kingdom, and set himself to the familiar pastime of destroying churches and assassinating priests. His son and succesor Harald Bluetooth swung in the other direction. He claimed to have made the Danes Christians, and it is in his days that we first hear of bishops among them (948). After the work of Harald, Christianity became an effective part of the life of the Danish kings and people.

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