Games like Crusader Kings 2 point out the ease of converting pagans (or at least the Norse) to Christianity. Was this ease in converting heathens an observed phenomenon? Are there any explanations as to why this was so?

by corn_on_the_cobh

Heathens as in what the Norse I believe called themselves (or rather those who believed in non-Christian gods), not as a pejorative.

Vespertine

Here are some earlier answers related to several examples.

The conversion of Ireland (earlier than Crusader Kings)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/60wgyx/is_it_true_that_saint_patrick_driving_the_snakes/ by u/depanneur , u/alriclofgar and others, and

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2o4ekc/a_girl_i_know_gets_indigant_every_st_patricks_day/ again by u/depanneur, u/Lonnbeimnech and others

From this month:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/84wi9l/was_the_christianisation_of_ireland_peaceful/ in which u/alriclofgar and u/1MMRAM discuss the earlier answers

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/859t3l/according_to_popular_legend_st_patrick_drove_the/ by u/1MMRAM

The Northern Crusades (Prussia and the area now covered by the Baltic States)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/39ijb1/how_did_teutonic_knights_communicate_with_baltic/ by u/JDHoare

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/46hpus/justification_for_the_northern_crusades_in_context/ by l3eater

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/45im8r/who_were_the_last_pagans_in_europe/ by u/kanyewestsample

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5impz7/good_sources_for_lithuanian_baltic_and_northern/ u/Rhodis lists sources on the Northern Crusades, should you wish to read more

Vikings

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7ursno/why_did_vikings_abandoned_paganism_and_converted/ by u/BRIStoneman and u/Steelcan909

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6qg9wh/as_northerneastern_europe_converted_from_paganism/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6ii1fq/how_did_the_conversion_from_norse_pagan_religion/ both by u/Steelcan909

Generalities / late Roman period

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7q0spd/why_did_european_pagan_kings_convert_to/dsloq61/ by u/BRIStoneman

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5uhqwr/do_we_have_any_sources_of_pagans_fighting_back/ and
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2reffe/it_never_made_sense_to_me_how_easily_christianity/? by u/shlin28