Temple at Uppsala

The Temple at Uppsala was a Temple in Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), near modern Uppsala, Sweden, created to worship the Norse gods of ancient times.

Gesta Danorum

Like Snorri, Saxo wrote it was a place for human sacrifice founded by the god Frey:

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:Also Frey, the regent of the gods, took his abode not far from Upsala, where he exchanged for a ghastly and infamous sin-offering the old custom of prayer by sacrifice, which had been used by so many ages and generations. For he paid to the gods abominable offerings, by beginning to slaughter human victims.http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/DanishHistory/book3.html

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He also writes that there were assemblies of people entertaining themselves:

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:And when he (Starkad) had done many noteworthy deeds among them, he went into the land of the Swedes, where he lived at leisure for seven years' space with the sons of Frey (House of Yngling). At last he left them and betook himself to Hakon, the tyrant of Denmark, because when stationed at Upsala, at the time of the sacrifices, he was disgusted by the effeminate gestures and the clapping of the mimes on the stage, and by the unmanly clatter of the bells. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/DanishHistory/book6.html

Related Topics:
Starkad - House of Yngling

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