Some Christmas traditions mirror pre-Christian festivities, but some pagan influences may have been overstated.

World Feb 04 Modern day pagans plan to build Iceland’s first Norse temple in 1,000 years While they may not be going as far as animal sacrifice and Viking burials, members of a neo-pagan church ...

Norse sagas reveal that while many people worshipped ... who had seduced his benefactor's daughter and burned down a pagan temple would be "banished from Valhalla forever." According to the ...