The Coming Of Christianity
The late tenth century had seen Norway convert to Catholicism under the fiery king Olafur Tryggvason . Olafur then sent the missionary Thangabrand to evangelize Iceland, where - despite battling, literally, strong resistance from pagan stalwarts - he baptized several influential chieftains. Back in Norway, Thangabrand's unfavourable reports infuriated Olafur, who was only prevented from executing all Icelanders in the country by the Icelandic chieftain Gizur the White , who promised to champion the new religion at home. Gizur mustered his forces and rode to the Alping in 1000, where civil war was only averted by the lawspeaker porgeir , who - having made pagan and Christian alike swear to accept his decision - chose Christianity as Iceland's official religion, though pagans were initially allowed to maintain their beliefs in private. Gizur the White's son Isleifur became Iceland's first bishop in 1056, and his homestead at Skalholt near pingvellir was made the bishop's seat, with a second, northern diocese founded in 1106 at Holar . The new religion brought gradual changes with it, notably the introduction in 1097 of tithes - property taxes - to fund churches. As their wealth increased, churches founded monasteries and schools , bringing education and the beginnings of literature : Iceland's laws were first written down in 1117; and in 1130 the church commissioned Ari the Learned to compile the Islendingabok , a compendium of the Icelandic people and their lineages. Importantly, Ari wrote not in Latin, the usual language of education and the Church at the time, but in Icelandic, an expression of national identity that was followed by almost all later Icelandic writers.
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