Mære
is a village in
Steinkjer Municipality in
Trøndelag county,
Norway
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. It is located along
European route E6 and the
Nordlandsbanen railway line, about south of the
town of Steinkjer. The village of
Sparbu lies about south of Mære.
Mære Church is located in this village as well.
The village has a population (2024) of 437 and a
population density
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of .
History
In the early
Viking Age
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, according to the
Sagas, Mære was one of the most important religious ceremonial places, with sacrifices to the
Norse gods. Under the medieval church at Mære, traces of preceding
heathen hof were found in archeological investigations during the 1960s, the only case in Norway so far of a pre-Christian building being found to have existed on the site of a church.
References
Villages in Trøndelag
Steinkjer
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