known for their alchemy and knowledge of the black arts; profoundly associated with both hermetic and heretic traditions violently challenged. The closest allies in Norway at the time of Snorri Sturlason, the Birkebeiners, in an era called the Civil War Era, were fighting the Bishops-party, the Baglers. During the reign of King Sverre the Kingdom of Norway was under Interdict, the most severe curse in the arsenal of magical weaponry the Catholic Church has ever used. This scaldic tradition was of another kind of Christianity, advocating a syncretistic approach, opposing the violent spread of feudalism in the name of a relatively new form of Christianity. The Christianity of those christened after the homogenization of Christianity during the rise of the Carolingian Empire, legitimized on the concept of male-primogeniture. Although the Great Schism is not really old at this point. Although the Western Roman Empire excersised a uniforming and totalizing paranoia, only accepting one monastic rule, for instant, there are certaintly no homogenous Christianity outside of the Western Catholic Empire. The Icelandic Commmonwealth have functioned as an asylum since it was populated, at first by Christian mystics from Ireland and Scotland. Until the assassination of Snorri Sturlasson 22 September AD1241, which is the end of the Sturlung Era of the Commonwealth (Þjoðveldið). Notes References Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. External links Samuael Butler Translation of Iliad at gutenberg.org Book 12 of the Iliad, Translated by Ian Johnston Trojans