Qualla: Gamla Uppsala https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/s/s/uppsala-wk/bridge-on-the-fyris-river-in-u.jpg Qualla: Gamla Uppsala https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala Gamla Uppsala: Introduction https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala/ Photo credit User:Erik Frohne, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three massive earthen mounds rise from the Swedish plain like sleeping giants, their grass-covered slopes holding secrets seventeen centuries old. Gamla Uppsala was not merely a village but the very heart of Viking-age Sweden, where the Yngling dynasty ruled from halls that sagas claimed Odin himself once walked. Medieval chroniclers spoke of this place with a mixture of awe and horror, describing a golden temple where humans, horses, and dogs hung together in sacred groves, their bodies offerings to gods whose names still echo through Scandinavian culture.

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/s/s/gamla-uppsala-wp/u6ss-gamla-uppsala-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gamla Uppsala: Where Gods Once Walked https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala/ Photo credit Ojan, Public domain. The Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus wrote that Odin himself chose to dwell at Gamla Uppsala, drawn by either the laziness of its inhabitants or the pleasantness of the spot. The Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson told a slightly different tale, placing the god Freyr here ins...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/s/s/gamla-uppsala-wp/u6ss-gamla-uppsala-where-gods-once-walked.mp3 0:06 2 full Gamla Uppsala: The Royal Mounds https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala/ Photo credit Carl L. Thunberg för Föreningen Kulturarvsbilder, CC BY 4.0. The three great burial mounds called Kungshogarna stand as Sweden's oldest national symbols, dated to the 5th and 6th centuries. Folklore claims Thor, Odin, and Freyr rest within them, though 19th-century scholars speculated they held kings of the semi-legendary Yngling dynasty, ...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/s/s/gamla-uppsala-wp/u6ss-gamla-uppsala-the-royal-mounds.mp3 0:06 3 full Gamla Uppsala: The Last Pagan Stronghold https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala/ Photo credit Vysotsky, CC BY-SA 4.0. Gamla Uppsala clung to the old gods longer than anywhere else in Sweden. During the 1070s and 1080s, a renaissance of Norse religion flourished here, centered on the magnificent Temple at Uppsala with its wooden statues of Odin, Thor, and Freyr. When the Christian king Ingi refus...

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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/s/s/gamla-uppsala-wp/u6ss-gamla-uppsala-the-last-pagan-stronghold.mp3 0:06 4 full Gamla Uppsala: Layers of Memory https://qualla.com/gamla-uppsala/ Photo credit Lestat (Jan Mehlich), CC BY-SA 3.0. Anders Celsius, the astronomer who gave his name to the temperature scale, lies buried in Gamla Uppsala Church beside his grandfather Magnus. King Eric IX of Sweden was interred here before being moved to Uppsala Cathedral. Archbishop Valerius rests in this ground. The Thing of A...

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