Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:19:02 +0100, D wrote:
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I wonder how many of my forefathers who remained pagans after the
country officially became christian? Surely at least a few must have
remained pagans for a couple of 100 of years after official christianity
was implemented.

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I doubt the priests dug too deeply into what the new converts really
believed.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19739568-tree-of-salvation
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Murphy also translated the Heliand and in 'The Saxon Savior' discusses the
background.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliand
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The old beliefs didn't suddenly go away and were incorporated into the new
religion. That still happens today with missionaries to Africa or Latin
America.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa
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I imagine the local priests count them as Catholics.
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I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that remains of paganism were alive until the 1700s, but cannot find anything through a quick google. My friendly neighbourhood AI insist on official death in the 12:th century.
Anecdotally, I heard a story that once my grandfather visited sweden, from iceland. And for some reason he and my mother were visiting the country side in the north where they have a very strange dialect. Apparently he could speak with an old man there in icelandic, and the old man could speak this very rare dialect and they would understand each other.
Fascinating how such pockets can survive.