Mære
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Mære[1] is a village in Steinkjer Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along European route E6 and the Nordlandsbanen railway line, about Template:Convert south of the town of Steinkjer. The village of Sparbu lies about Template:Convert south of Mære. Mære Church is located in this village as well.[2]
The Template:Convert village has a population (2024) of 437 and a population density of Template:Convert.[3]
History
In the early Viking Age, 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.