The Trial
During the trial the icons of the gods and the Thor-symbol were placed before the court, and the court asked Lars if they had done him any good. He answered that they had, especially three years before; when a great plague had affected his cattle, he had asked the Christian god for help, but when it did not arrive, he asked the old Sami gods instead. The court asked him if they had helped him, and he said that they had.
Lars told them, that the Christian priests had told him to fear the Christian god, who made the cattle, above all else both publicly and privately, but the old gods had done him much better than the priests ever had.
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