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The Wicker Man at 50: how the strange 1970s British film became a cult classic
- zeristor 3y agoThe blood sacrifice the Vikings did for the good Frey in Uppsala were quite a bit grimmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_at_Uppsala Remember kids correlation does not imply causation.
- Someone 3y ago> The blood sacrifice the Vikings did for the good Frey in Uppsala were quite a bit grimmer. Were or were not. That story may be largely made up or at least be highly exaggerated. FTA: “Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, "Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed.” “Orchard (1997) states that "it is unclear to what extent Adam's description has a basis in historical fact rather than lurid fiction" yet that Adam's account contains "a good deal of useful information (as well as considerable speculation)”
- zeristor 3y agoGood point, thanks.