title: 2 Jews in Medieval Denmark and Sweden
abstract: A fundamental aspect concerning the representations of Jews in medieval Scandinavian manuscripts and books is the fact that there was not and never had been a resident Jewish population in the lands where these texts were produced. Yet even though there were no Jews living in Scandinavia, Danes and Swedes would have had opportunities to meet Jews abroad from the Viking Age on. For example, Swedish Vikings would have traded with Jewish merchants in Khazaria, a Turkic khaganate at the crossroads b