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It's probably hard to say, since Christians kept most of the records of Norse religion, and most of these are about efforts towards conversion. What's more obvious is the impact of northern (not only Norse, but also the Germanic) religion was on Christians. Yule and Easter are two really obvious examples, and much surviving folklore just alters Norse concepts with Christian ones.
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How about the impact of Norse religion on Christendom? “The English name Easter, like the German Ostern, probably derives from Eostur, the Norse word for the spring season, and not from Eostre, the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess.”—The Encyclopedia of Religion. Also, in An Encyclopedia of Religion, edited, 1964, on pages 793 and 794, under the word “triad,” are listed the trinities of the Babylonian, Buddhist, Hindu, Norse, Taoist, and other religions, as well as those of Christendom.
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Well, I think it pretty much killed it.
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Jesus was the core of Christianity. He professed in the one Diety idea. Norse based their religions on many Gods, but they still came to the idea that there was one almighty ruler, no?
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Odin became Santa Claus!
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