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The Medieval Church · c. 870–876
The Life of Anskar
Rimbert · d. 888
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What it is
The career of a missionary to Denmark and Sweden, including a shipwreck, a Viking raid that destroyed his church, and the calm return to start again.
Why it lasted
The principal source for the first Christian missions to Scandinavia, written by the man who succeeded him.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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