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Raud the Strong was a Norse Seiðr ___MASK78___ and seafaring warrior , who resisted conversion to Christianity in the late 10th century AD . ___MASK63___ is a ___MASK87___ based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ , who serves as the focal point for the religion . It is the world ' s largest religion , with over 2 . 4 billion followers , or 33 % of the global population , known as Christians . Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as the Messiah ( the Christ ) was prophesied in the Old Testament . Norsemen are the ___MASK39___ of ___MASK52___ who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language between the 8th and 11th centuries . The language belongs to the North Germanic branch of the Indo - European languages , and is the earlier form of modern Scandinavian languages . The Viking ___MASK32___ is the period from late 8th century to mid 11th century in European history , especially Northern European and Scandinavian history , following the Germanic Iron ___MASK32___ . It is the period of history when Scandinavian Norsemen explored Europe by its seas and rivers for trade , raids , colonisation and conquest . In this period , the Norsemen settled in Norse Greenland , Newfoundland , and present - day Faroe Islands , Iceland , Norway , Scotland , England , Ireland , the Netherlands , Germany , Ukraine , Russia , and Turkey . Though Viking travellers and colonists were seen at many points in history as brutal raiders , many historical documents suggest that their invasion of other countries was retaliation in response to the encroachment upon tribal lands by Christian missionaries , and perhaps by the Saxon Wars prosecuted by Charlemagne and his kin to the south , or , were motivated by overpopulation , trade inequities , and the lack of viable farmland in their homeland . Information about the Viking ___MASK32___ is drawn largely from what was written about the Vikings by their enemies , and primary sources of archaeology , supplied with secondary sources like the Icelandic Sagas . Nordland is a ___MASK46___ in Norway in the Northern Norway region , bordering Troms in the north , Nord - Trøndelag in the south , Norrbotten ___MASK46___ in Sweden to the east , Västerbotten ___MASK46___ to the southeast , and the Atlantic Ocean ( Norwegian ___MASK80___ ) to the west . The ___MASK46___ was formerly known as " Nordlandene amt ". The ___MASK46___ administration is in Bodø . The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen has been administered from Nordland since 1995 . The Faroe Islands ( Irish : " Na Scigirí ") are an ___MASK95___ between the Norwegian ___MASK80___ and the North Atlantic approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland , north - northwest of mainland Scotland . The area is approximately with a 2016 population of 49 , 188 . The islands are an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark . Hålogaland was the northernmost of the Norwegian provinces in the medieval Norse sagas . In the early Viking ___MASK32___ , before Harald Fairhair , Hålogaland was a kingdom extending between the Namdalen valley in Nord - Trøndelag county and the Lyngen fjord in Troms county . Harald Fairhair ( Old Norse : " Haraldr Hárfagri ", Norwegian : " Harald Hårfagre ", ( literally " Harald Hair - ___MASK77___ ") ; 850  932 ) is remembered by medieval historians as the first ___MASK82___ of Norway . According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , he reigned from 872 to 930 . Most of his life remains uncertain , since the extant accounts of his life in the sagas were set down in writing around three centuries after his lifetime . A few remnants of skaldic praise poems attributed to contemporary court poets exist which seem to refer to Harald ' s victories against opponents in Norway . The information supplied in these poems is inconsistent with the tales in the sagas in which they are transmitted , and the sagas themselves often disagree on the details of his background and biography . Two of his sons , Eric Bloodaxe and Haakon the Good , succeeded Harald to become kings after his death . Ormurin Langi (" The Long Serpent ") is a ___MASK84___ type ___MASK23___ ( kvæði ) in the Faroe Islands . It was written ca . 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus . In Old Norse , seiðr ( sometimes anglicized as " seidhr ", " seidh ", " seidr ", " seithr ", " seith ", or " seid ") was a type of sorcery which was practiced in Norse ___MASK62___ during the Late Scandinavian Iron ___MASK32___ . Connected with Norse religion , its origins are largely unknown , although it gradually eroded following the Christianization of Scandinavia . Accounts of " seiðr " later made it into sagas and other literary sources , while further evidence has been unearthed by archaeologists . Various scholars have debated the nature of " seiðr ", some arguing that it was shamanic in context , involving visionary journeys by its practitioners . Ormr inn Langi in Old Norse ( The Long Serpent ) Ormen Lange in Norwegian , Ormurin Langi in Faroese was one of the most famous of the Viking longships . It was built for the Norwegian ___MASK82___ Olav Tryggvason , and was the largest and most powerful longship of its ___MASK64___ . In the late 990s ___MASK82___ Olav was on a `` Crusade '' around the country to bring Christianity to Norway . When he was traveling north to Hålogaland he came to a petty kingdom in today ' s Skjerstad , where the king named Raud the Strong refused to convert to Christianity . A battle ensued , during which Saltstraum , a maelstrom that prevented reinforcements to the king ' s men , forced ___MASK82___ Olav to flee . He continued up north but returned some weeks later when the maelstrom had subsided . Olav won the battle , captured Raud , and gave him two choices : die or convert . The Sagas say that Olav tried to convert him but Raud cursed the name of Jesus , and the ___MASK82___ became so enraged that he stuck a kvanstilk ( a pipe ) down his throat and shoved a snake into it , then a burning iron to force the snake down his throat . The snake ate its way out of the side of the torso of Raud and killed him . After the victory Olav confiscated Raud ' s riches , not least of which was Raud ' s ship , which he rechristened Ormen ( The Serpent ) . He took it to Trondheim and used it as a design for his own new ship , which he made a couple of `` rooms '' longer than Ormen and named Ormen Lange . The ship reportedly had 34 rooms , i . e . , was built with 34 pairs of oars , for a crew of 68 rowers ( and additional crew members ) . Extrapolating from archeological evidence ( e . g . , the Gokstad ship ) , this would make Ormen Lange nearly 45 meters long . The ship ' s sides were unusually high , `` as high as that of a Knarr '' . Ormen Lange was the last ship to be taken in the Battle of Svolder , where Olav was killed ( although his body was never found -- some stories tell of the king jumping into the water either sinking due to the weight of his armour or escaping in the confusion ) by a coalition of his enemies in the year 1000 . Its story is told in a traditional Faroese ballad , or Kvæði , called `` Ormurin Langi '' . Namdalen is a traditional ___MASK100___ in the central ___MASK68___ of Norway , consisting of the municipalities Namsos , Grong , Overhalla , Røyrvik , Fosnes , Nærøy , Høylandet , Namdalseid , Flatanger , Lierne , Leka , Namsskogan , and Vikna , all in Nord - Trøndelag county . The ___MASK100___ has two towns : Kolvereid and Namsos . The whole ___MASK100___ covers about and has about 35 , 000 residents ( 2009 ). Skjerstad ( jæ ` a ) is a ___MASK99___ and a ___MASK71___ in Nordland county , Norway . The municipality originally encompassed area on the northern and southern shores in the central part of the large Skjerstad Fjord . The small ___MASK99___ of Skjerstad sits at the mouth of the Misværfjorden , where it joins Skjerstad Fjord . The ___MASK99___ is also the location of Skjerstad Church . Troms is a ___MASK46___ in Northern Norway . It borders Finnmark ___MASK46___ to the northeast and Nordland ___MASK46___ in the southwest . Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter ___MASK56___ with Lapland ___MASK3___ in Finland . To the west is the Norwegian ___MASK80___ ( Atlantic Ocean ). Nord - Trøndelag (" North Trøndelag ") is a ___MASK46___ constituting the northern ___MASK68___ of Trøndelag in Norway . As of January ___MASK25___ , 2014 , the ___MASK46___ had 135 , 142 inhabitants , making it the country ' s fourth - least populated ___MASK46___ . The largest municipalities are Stjørdal , Steinkjer  the ___MASK46___ seat , Levanger , Namsos and Verdal , all with between 21 , 000 and 12 , 000 inhabitants . The economy is primarily centered on services , although there are significant industries in agriculture , fisheries , hydroelectricity and forestry . It has the lowest gross domestic product per capita of any ___MASK46___ in the country . Trøndelag is a ___MASK73___ ___MASK81___ in the central ___MASK68___ of Norway , consisting of the two counties Nord - Trøndelag and Sør - Trøndelag . It also formerly also included the county of Jämtland , which is today ___MASK68___ of Sweden ; it is therefore also known unofficially as Øst - Trøndelag . The districts of Nordmøre and Romsdal , and the municipality of Bindal , were also originally parts of Trøndelag - and the inhabitants there still speak dialects similar to Trøndersk . The ___MASK81___ is , together with Møre og Romsdal , ___MASK68___ of a larger administrative division called Central Norway . Norway (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of Norway , is a sovereign and unitary ___MASK27___ whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the ___MASK1___ Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I ___MASK1___ and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet ___MASK1___ are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . The umiak , umialak , umiaq , umiac , oomiac , oomiak , ongiuk , or anyak is a type of open ___MASK6___ ___MASK5___ used by both Yupik and Inuit , and was originally found in all coastal areas from Siberia to Greenland . First arising in Thule times , it has traditionally been used in summer to move people and possessions to seasonal hunting grounds and for hunting whales and walrus . Although the umiak was usually propelled by oars ( women ) or paddles ( men ), sails -- sometimes made from seal intestines -- were also used , and in the 20th century , outboard motors . Longships were a type of ___MASK83___ invented and used by the Norsemen for ___MASK53___ , commerce , ___MASK16___ , and warfare during the Viking ___MASK32___ . The longship ' s design evolved over many centuries , beginning in the Stone ___MASK32___ with the invention of the umiak and continuing up until the 6th century with clinker built ships like Nydam and Kvalsund . The longship appeared in its complete form between the 9th and 13th centuries . The character and appearance of these ships have been reflected in Scandinavian ___MASK5___ - building traditions until today . The particular skills and methods employed in making longships are still used worldwide , often with modern adaptations . They were all made out of wood , with cloth sails ( woven wool ) and had numerous details and carvings on the hull . Jens ___MASK55___ Djurhuus or Sjóvarbóndin ( ___MASK10___ 21 , 1773  November 21 , 1853 ) was the first poet who wrote in Faroese . He composed several Faroese ballads in traditional style on historical themes . The best known is " Ormurin langi ". Djurhuus also composed satirical poems directed against Danish rule in the Faroe Islands .