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there was also near the chapel a deep pit or well, into which they cast the victims.”
When Denmark had embraced the Christian faith, they applied themselves with as much zeal to destroy these temples, as they had a little before to serve their false gods in them. In a short time they were all razed to the ground, and the very remembrance of the places where they stood was totally lost. But the altars that are very often found scattered upon the mountains and in the woods, testify at this day, that the ancient Danes were not less attached to this mode of worship than the other northern nations.
All the gods whose names I have enumerated, and many others of inferior note, were worshipped and invoked by the ancient Scandinavians, but not all in the same manner, nor on the same account. The great temple of Upsal seemed to be particularly consecrated to the three superior deities, and each of them was characterized by some particular symbol. Odin was represented holding a sword in his hand: Thor stood at the left hand of Odin, with a crown upon his head, a sceptre in one hand, and a club in the other. Sometimes they painted him on a chariot, drawn by two he-goats of wood,
