February 9th is a day of remembrance for the Asatru in honor of Eyvind Kinnrifi (whom Olaf Tryggvason tortured to death when he refused to convert, by placing a metal brazier filled with hot coals on his stomach).
Eyvind Kinnrifi, resistance fighter against Christianity
Olaf Tryggvason (960 – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, King of Viken (Vingulmark and Rånrike) and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, the first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I.
Olaf is considered a major factor in the conversion of the Scandinavians to Christianity. Many of these new converts converted under threat of violence. He is said to have built the first Christian church in Norway in 995 and to have founded the city of Trondheim in 997.
Olaf regularly used force to force conversion to Christianity, including executing and torturing those who refused. Raud the Strong refused to convert and, after an unsuccessful attempt to use a wooden pin to pry open his mouth to insert a snake, was killed by a snake goaded by a hot poker through a drinking horn into Raud's mouth and down his throat.
Eyvind Kinnrifi also refused and was killed by a brazier of hot coals resting on his belly. The possibly apocryphal figure, Sigrid the Haughty is said to have refused to marry Olaf if it meant renouncing the religion of her ancestors, upon which Olaf slapped her with his glove, an act that prompted her to unite her enemies against him years later.
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