Abstract
In the 10th century one certain cleric Poppo had convinced King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark of accepting the Christian faith by an ordeal: he held a red-hot iron in his hand which later had been unburned. This story is interpreted as a myth which was endowed with different meanings and different functions in the course of Nordic historiography. In a comparative study these different settings are examined. ›Myth‹ is therein understood in mere functional terms, as story which tells more about the time in which it is written down than about the events it narrates. The Poppo Myth was utilized in terms of legitimacy for both Episcopal and royal representation, until it was later replaced by other myths.
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