Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus is a work by Olaus Magnus on the Nordic countries, printed in Rome in 1555. It long remained for the rest of Europe the authority on Swedish matters. Its popular
"On the three Main Gods of the Geats." From left to right; Frigg, Thor and Odin.
"The Alphabet of the Geats", showing the runic alphabet used by the Geats.
Temple at Uppsala
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The Temple at Uppsala was long held to be a religious centre in the Norse religion once located at what became Gamla Uppsala, Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th-century work Gesta Hammaburgensis
A woodcut depicting the Temple at Uppsala as described by Adam of Bremen, including the golden chain around the temple, the well and the tree, from Olaus Magnus' Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555).
Some scholars have claimed to see sacrificed men hanging from the branches of a tree, in the Oseberg tapestry fragments.
Gamla Uppsala, the centre of worship in Sweden until the temple was destroyed in the late 11th century.
Yngvi-Freyr constructs the Temple at Uppsala (1830) by Hugo Hamilton