Mythology

Norse mythology………?

According to my sister, the only people who believed in the gods from norse mythology (Thor, Odin, etc) were people specifically from Iceland and Norway ONLY. Couldn’t people who lived in what is modern day Sweden (along with other countries) also have worshiped those gods?
I didn’t mean to make it sound like people don’t still believe in them (sorry if I did), but I’m just kinda trying to prove to my sister that ‘back in the day’ people from Sweden could have believed in them as well.

People in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and continental Germany all believed in the same deities, with the same attributes. The names might have differed slightly according to geography and locally spelling norms. Example:Thor, (Thunar, Donnar) and Odin, (Odhinn, Wuotan, Wotan). The Gods and Goddesses were common to all these cultures.

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