The Vikings

Fury of the Northmen


826: Ansgar from France is sent by Roman papal authority to Denmark as a royal chaplain and missionary.
826: Harald Klak is baptized along with 400 of his followers at Mainz.
828: 1^st Christian church in present-day Slovakia.
828: 1^st missionaries reach the area that is now the Czech Republic.
830: Scotch-born Erluph is evangelizing in (what is now) Germany when he is killed by the Vandals.
859: Execution of Eulogius, proponent of confrontational Christian witness in Spain and other Muslim-dominated societies. Opposed to any feeling of affinity with Muslim culture, Eulogius advocated using a missiology of martyrdom to confront Islam.
864: Conversion of Prince Boris of Bulgaria .
867: The Serbian and Montenegrin peoples embrace Christianity.