page_title: History of Scania
section_title: After the Christianization
hierarchical_section_title: History of Scania / After the Christianization
caption_attribution_description: Notera Av dokumentationsskäl har originalbeskrivningen från Riksantikvarieämbetet behållits. Tillrättalägganden och alternativa beskrivningar bör införas separat från nedanstående information. Felaktigheter kan även anmälas till denna sida. Kyrkan från nordväst. Innan restaurering omkring 1870-talet. Ur C.G. Brunius samling. English: Lund Cathedral as it looked before the restauration by Helgo Zettervall in 1860-1880. The Romanesque cathedral, one of the oldest churches in Scandinavia, was inaugurated in 1145. From C. G. Brunius Archive Collection Svenska: Lunds domkyrka som den såg ut före Helgo Zettervalls restaurering 1860-1880. Den romanska domkyrkan, som är en av Skandinaviens äldsta kyrkor, invigdes 1145. Ur C.G. Brunius samling This is a photo of a protected building in Sweden, number 21400000439699 in the RAÄ buildings database.
context_page_description: The history of the province of Scania was for many hundred years, up until the 18th century, marked by the struggle between the two Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden over the hegemony in the Baltic area.
context_section_description: It now seems likely that a period of domestic colonization within Scania that was earlier believed to have started before the Viking Age, in reality largely took place after the Viking Age, when donations of land to monasteries led to influences from Continental Europe.  This led to a transition from a predominantly animal husbandry-based society to one of farming, which entailed extensive land clearing, possibly also connected with the liberation of the thralls, that led to the creation of many new settlements with names ending in -torp, -rup, and -rød.
  Scania was first mentioned in written texts in the 8th century, stating that it was a part of Denmark. According to the Large Jelling Stone, Scanians, like all Danes were Christianized by the King of all Danes, Harald Bluetooth before this stone was raised, presumably around 985 AD.
  The Scanian law, the oldest of the Medieval Scandinavian laws,  came into force in the beginning of the 13th century. It is remarkable in the sense that it exists written in both Latin letters (not in Latin though) as well as Runes, Codex runicus.
  Already in 1060 was Dalby Church build by Svend Estridsen, as one of the first Danish churches made of stone. Between 1104 and 1536, Lund was the Archbishopric of Denmark, and the Danish National Banner, Dannebrog, was preserved in the Cathedral for several centuries.
  In 1332 the king of Denmark, Christopher II, died as a "king without a country" after he and his older brother and predecessor had divided Denmark into much smaller polities. King Magnus took advantage of his neighbour's distress, redeeming these lands for the eastern Danish provinces for a huge amount of silver, which included Scania. The province was later reconquered by the great Danish king Valdemar IV of Denmark in 1360, as part of his conquest campaign to regain previously lost Danish territory.
  During parts of the Middle Ages, Scania was known throughout Northern Europe for its herring and the market where it was sold.
caption: Lund Cathedral in around 1870, before the changes to the western end of the building
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