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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7750162" data-attributes="member: 58172">Uppåkra is in Sweden, not in Norway. It is in Skåne, the southern most  tip of Sweden, across from Denmark and Germany. In the Iron Age  (preceding the Viking Era), it was a prominent trade center, meaning  foreign influence is possible from traderoutes.One archeologist  suggested the remains of a wooden structure in Uppåkra might resemble a  structure that was later used for churches, and in this vein, it might  be a kind of ‘temple’. He also thought it is was the only evidence for a  temple in Sweden. Archeologists who are responsible for this site today  seem to have rejected his identification of a temple, but there are  references to a (vaguely worded) ‘ceremonial house’, suggesting some  kind of local folkbelief custom might be present here. The Uppåkra site  is interesting because of a large number of Iron Age small gold images  (gullgubbe), interpreted variously as amulets or as votive offerings,  however whether these actually had any ceremonial use or not is itself  speculation.My take on this site is, we still need to know more.  This might be evidence of some kind of local spiritual custom. Or not.  But in either case, there seems to be no ‘temple’ here.</blockquote>