The first person narrator directly addresses not us, the readers, but a Christian priest:
"So, priest, I am not unwilling to believe what you say about the White Christ. I have been in England and France myself, and seen how the folk prosper. He must be a very powerful god, to ward so many realms..." (p. 185)
Of course, anyone who thinks like this is still a Pagan and has not yet begun to convert to Christianity. Indeed, the narrator, while welcoming the white robe given at baptism, would ask the house elves to protect it from mildew.
For another incorporation of a Christian reference into a different conceptual framework, see Not Far From Buddhahood.
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Kaor, Paul!
True, this Scandinavian Icelander had not only a pagan view of religion and Christianity, but a very naive one. As was only to be expected of a nation just barely beginning to adopt a new and different faith. The Icelandic Althing formally adopted Christianity as the country's new faith in AD 1000.*
Ad astra! Sean
*The Althing also decreed that those Icelanders who could not bring themselves to convert could remain pagans as long as they practiced their rites only on their own farms.
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