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This study concerns the christianization of medieval Norway, from the eleventh century until the mid-thirteenth century, through feasts and food rituals. The analysis is largely based on the Gulathing law, a legal compilation of regional laws started in the eleventh century and codified in its final form in the thirteenth century. A few other sources act as auxiliaries, especially helpful in the establishing the chronology of christianization. Throughout this work, the marked importance of feasts as an essential mechanism to the Norwegian society allows to better understand how these events served the religious transition. This work also establishes that christianization was a lengthy process where a few elements of religious continuity could be observed. The feasts proved to be an important means to the coming of Christianity in the North, mostly through the retaining of certain rites and through the cultural changes observed in this kind of event.