In this lecture, Torben Bramming, author and priest at Ribe Cathedral, looks at the monk and archbishop Ansgar, who became known as the apostle of the North after a dramatic life.
The talk follows Ansgar's mission in 826, when he travelled with the newly baptised and crowned Danish king Harald Klak. It was here that Denmark took shape as a Christian nation, and where the Danish royal house and the Church first came together. Ansgar's work also tied Denmark to Christendom in Europe, changing how Danish society thought about time, about one's fellow human beings and about the weak.
