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Christian king of Norway, Haakon Haraldsson, in dispute with his pagan subjects, 10th century AD (oil painting 1860 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo)
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Sagas were written down, a lot of them. A self-respecting family would care about storing a "common biography" like that. A center of all that was (surprise!) Iceland - people there specializing on writing stuff down, archiving, etc, for most of Scandinavia
What about when it comes to the idea of an 'overall Norse mythology?'
Oh, speaking of the idea that the "well known gods" were some local stuff - I don't really know, I'm not a hostorian, I just read some stuff on sagas and found out it was a big genre. But feels weird - the whole pantheon is and was known by a large part of population, if not by everyone, and for centuries. So it feels like conspiracy theory stuff
That could also very well be a case of later populations coming to normalize and accept what was originally only a smaller belief-set.
For example, the early Christian interpretations no doubt varied a lot, such as with the Essene sect, and others. And yet if you look at how people commonly view Christianity today, it's hugely dominated by the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, going back ~1700yrs, and by Protestantism, going back ~500yrs. Most such people still don't have a clue about all the other ancient texts and oral traditions which were decided not to be included in the major bible line, such as the other gospels.
See the other comment here for more, in which a book focuses on this...