Does Vikings: Valhalla's Uppsala Exist? Real World Location
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Vikings: Valhalla
The Uppsala pagan temple in Vikings: Valhalla had an important part in Freydis’ story, and it also appeared in History’s Vikings – but it's not immediately clear whether it exists in the real world. Vikings’ sequel Valhalla was released on February 25 on Netflix, and it focused on fictionalized versions of Norse sagas protagonists and historical figures Leif Erikson, his sister Freydís Eiríksdóttir, and Norway king Harald Hardrada Sigurdsson. Unlike reality, Valhalla placed Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida Gustavsson), and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Suter) in the same period at the end of the Viking Age between 1002 and 1066, and together in the fictional Norway town of Kattegat, home of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel).
While Leif and Harald traveled to England with other fighters to avenge Saint Brice's Day’s massacre by the English, the Uppsala temple played an essential part in Freydis’ story. Despite still being a devout follower of the Norse religion, contrary to many other Vikings who converted to Christianity, Freydis never visited the temple in Uppsala, as she lived her whole life in Greenland until she got to Kattegat. History’s Vikings introduced the temple in season 1 episode 8, when Ragnar, Lagertha (Katheryn Winnick), Athelstan (George Blagden), and many others visited it for their usual pilgrimage every nine years.
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The Uppsala temple, as seen on Valhalla and Vikings, is largely based on the work of 11th-century historian Adam of Bremen. His historical dissertation “Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum” detailed the pagan temple and its rites from a Christian point of
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