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The Temple at Uppsala was long held to be a religious center in the Norse religion once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala (Swedish "Old Uppsala"), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th-century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.
The museum is oriented towards the Vendel era and Viking Age history of Gamla Uppsala. Gamla Uppsala was a major religious and cultural centre in Sweden during these eras as well as medieval Sweden between approximately the 5th and the 13th centuries, housing the famous pagan Temple at Uppsala and several large burial mounds. The museum ...
Gamla Uppsala (Swedish: [ˈɡâmːla ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla], Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden. It had 17,973 inhabitants in 2016. [1] As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre. [2]
Described as the founder of the subsequent Viking age political centre Gamla Uppsala. The Yngling dynasty takes its name from him. [9] Fjölnir (Old Norse: Fjölnir; Swedish: Fjölner, Fjölne) – son and successor of Yngvi-Frey. [9] Sveigder (Old Norse: Sveigðir; Swedish: Svegder, Svegde) – son and successor of Fjölnir. [9]
The House of Munsö (Swedish: Munsöätten), also called the House of Björn Ironside (Swedish: Björn Järnsidas ätt), the House of Uppsala (Swedish: Uppsalaätten) or simply the Old dynasty (Swedish: Gamla kungaätten), is the earliest reliably attested royal dynasty of Sweden, ruling during the Viking Age.
[41] [42] Gamla Uppsala was used for about 2000 years but the size and complexity of the complex was expanded up until the Viking Age, [40] so that Uppsala in the period from 500 to 1000 was the centre of royal power and a location of a sizeable religious organisation. [43]
The most famous heathen hof of the Viking Age is that at Gamla Uppsala ("Old Uppsala") in Sweden, which was described by Adam of Bremen around 1070, likely based on an eyewitness description by King Sweyn Estridsen: That folk has a very famous temple called Uppsala . . . .
Map of Uppsala from 1920 Aeral view of Uppsala, 1940. In 1921 the State Institute for Racial Biology, known as the Statens institut för rasbiologi, was established in Uppsala as a governmental agency for eugenics. It was the world's first of its kind.