Hindu man is wishing Christian man to meet in Pegan Valhala? The persecution of Christianity by the Vikings lasted from the first Viking contact with Christians, the 8 June 793 Sack of Lindisfarne, until the conversion of Harald Bluetooth in the 960s. The Vikings traditionally adhered to Germanic paganism and worshipped the deities of Odin, Thor, Loki, and Heimdall, among others, and their attitudes towards Christianity was hostile since their first contact with England in 793 saw them sack a mo