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	Olaf II of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – July 29 1030), king from 1015–1028, (known during his lifetime as the Stout and after his death as Saint Olaf), was born in the year in which Olaf Tryggvasson came to Norway.
		Owing to Olaf's later status as the patron saint of Norway, and to his importance in later medieval historiography and in Norwegian folklore, it is difficult to assess the character of the historical Olaf.
		Olaf is generally held to be the driving force behind Norway's final conversion to Christianity.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Olav_II_of_Norway (946 words)

	OLAF (KINGS OF NORWAY) - LoveToKnow Article on OLAF (KINGS OF NORWAY) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In England he married Gyda, sister of Olaf Kvaran, king of Dublin, and it was only after some years spent in administering her property in England and Ireland that he set sail for Norway, fired by reports of the unpopularity of its ruler Earl Haakon.
		Arriving in Norway in the autumn of 995, he was unanimously accepted as king, and at once set about the conversion of the country to Christianity, undeterred by the obstinate resistance of the people.
		OLA.F (II.) HARADSSON (995-1030), king from 1016-1029, called during his lifetime " the Fat," and afterwards known as St Olaf, was born in 995, the year in which Olaf Tryggvesson came to Norway.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OL/OLAF_KINGS_OF_NORWAY_.htm (2213 words)

	Olaf IV of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf IV Haakonsson, (1370 - August 23, 1387), King of Norway and Denmark, son of Haakon VI of Norway and Margaret of Denmark.
		After Olaf, no Norwegian king was to be born on Norwegian soil for more than 550 years, until prince Harald was born in 1937.
		Olaf inherited the Danish throne through his mother and reigned as king of Denmark (1376-1387) as Oluf III and the Norwegian throne from his father and reigned in Norway (1380-1387) as Olav IV.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Olav_IV_of_Norway (210 words)

	Olaf II of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olav is the modern equivalent in Norwegian, formerly often spelled Olaf.
		In 1016 he defeated Earl Sweyn, hitherto the virtual ruler of Norway, at the Battle of Neaje, and within a few years had won more power than had been enjoyed by any of his predecessors on the throne.
		Owing to Olav's later status as the patron saint of Norway, and to his importance in later medieval historiography and in Norwegian folklore, it is difficult to assess the character of the historical Olav.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olaf_II_of_Norway (1099 words)

	Olaf I of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After a childhood spent in Novgorod under the protection of King Valdemar, Olaf fought for the emperor Otto III under the mythical Wendish king Burislav (almost all historian agree, that Burislav from Icelandic sagas is infact symbolising two Polish rulers, Mieszko I of Poland and Boleslaus I of Poland), whose daughter he had married.
		It has been suggested that Olaf's ambition was to rule a united, as well as a Christian Scandinavia, and we know that he made overtures of marriage to Sigrid the Haughty, queen of Sweden, and set about adding new ships to his fleet, when negotiations fell through owing to her obstinate heathenism.
		Olaf fought to the last on his great vessel the "Long Snake" (Ormen Lange), the mightiest ship in the North, and finally leapt overboard and was no more seen.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Olaf_I_of_Norway (531 words)

	Olaf II of Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He had annihilated the petty kings of the South, had crushed the aristocracy, enforced the acceptance of Christianity throughout the kingdom, asserted his suzerainty in the Orkney Islands, had humbled king Olof Skötkonung of Sweden and married his daughter in his despite, and had conducted a successful raid on Denmark.
		Miracles were worked at his tomb, and in 1164 he was canonized and was declared the patron saint of Norway, when his fame spread throughout Scandinavia and even to England, where churches are dedicated to him.
		The Norwegian order of Knighthood of Saint Olaf was founded in 1847 by Oscar I, king of Sweden and Norway, in memory of this king.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/o/ol/olaf_ii_of_norway.html (343 words)

	Magnus I of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnus I (1024 - October 25, 1047) was a King of Norway (1035 - 1047) and king of Denmark (1042 - 1047).
		In the period from 1028 to 1035, he was forced to leave Norway, but after the death of Knut the Great, he was called back by Norwegian noblemen, who were tired of being under Danish rule.
		His body was brought to Norway, and he was buried in the cathedral in Trondheim, where his father was also buried.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnus_I_of_Norway (387 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Norway
		Norway, comprising the smaller division of the Scandinavian peninsula, is bounded on the east by Lapland and Sweden, and on the west by the Atlantic.
		Olaf Trygvesson continued the work of union after Hakon's death, and promoted the spread of the new faith, but in a sea-fight with the united forces of the Danes and Swedes he was killed about 1000 near Svalder (of uncertain location).
		As regards territorial development in the Middle Ages, Norway had a number of tributary provinces--in the north, Finmark, inhabited by heathen Lapps; various groups of islands south-west of Norway as: the Farve Islands, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, to which were added later Iceland and Greenland.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11117b.htm (4747 words)

	Olaf I on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf died during his defeat at the naval battle of Svolder.
		The victors, King Sweyn of Denmark and King Olaf of Sweden, divided Norway.
		Olaf Choir to Perform Severance Hall Concert as Part of Nationwide Winter Tour; St. Olaf Choir and Anton Armstrong present eclectic blend music of classical and world music, spirituals and new works during their...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Olaf1.asp (463 words)

	Norway
		Olaf II Haraldsson, also known as Saint Olaf, is considered the unifier of the kingdom and the founder of the Norwegian Christian nation.
		Norway, which was a province of Denmark, was drawn into the war when the Danish king, Christian IV, demanded that the Norwegians supply an army of 8,000 peasants.
		It not only realised, in accordance with the Norway’s image of itself in the 19th century, the ideals of freedom and equality embodied in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, but it moreover represented a continuation and advancement of the old constitution from the time of Norwegian greatness and autonomy.
	www.dhm.de /ausstellungen/mythen/english/norweg.html (915 words)

	Olaf of Norway - OrthodoxWiki
		Olaf has since been held as a saint, not only by the people of Norway, whose patron saint he is, but also by Rome.
		The arms of Norway are a lion with the battle-axe of St. Olaf in the forepaws.
		Thirty-five years after St. Olaf's death, Harald was planning an invasion of northern England in 1066 at the provocation of the exiled Earl Tostig (brother of King Harold II of England).
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Olaf_of_Norway (922 words)

	Olaf, II Biography / Biography of Olaf, II Biography Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf was a son of Harold Graenske, a magnate, or kinglet, in eastern Norway and presumably related to Harold I Fairhair, the first king of Norway.
		Olaf established himself immediately in eastern Norway as a sort of king of kings, and the next year he defeated the jarls at Nesjar.
		Olaf was thus the first king to rule over the whole country, both east and west.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-olaf-ii (815 words)

	Olaf I of Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the christianisation of Norway, king Olaf had male völvas (shamans) tied and left on a skerry at ebb.
		Olaf fought to the last on his great vessel the "Long Serpent" (Ormen Lange), the mightiest ship in the North, and finally leapt overboard and was seen no more.
		After his death he remained the hero of his people, who whispered that he was yet alive and looked for his return (See also King in the mountain).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olaf_I_of_Norway (463 words)

	MARTYR-KING OLAF OF NORWAY - A Holy Orthodox Saint of Norway
		Olaf was born in 995, the son of a Norwegian lord named Harald Grenske, the great grandson of Harald Fairhair, and Asta Gudbransdatter.
		Olaf's work of unification assumed concrete form as territorial dominion over a kingdom which extended from Gautelven in the south up to Finnmark in the north, from the Vesterhav islands in the west to the forests toward the realm of the Swedes in the east.
		Olaf decided to flee to Sweden and thence to the court of his kinsman, Yaroslav of Kiev, whose father, the famous St. Vladimir, had given shelter to Olaf Tryggvason in his youth.
	www.orthodox.net /western-saints/olaf-martyr-king-of-norway.html (2465 words)

	Olaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The name Olaf (Olav), the name of the Saint, King Olaf II who is the patron of Norway, has also been the name of a number of other Norwegian kings.
		Olaf IV of Norway, "Olaf Haakonsson," king from 1370 - August 23, 1387
		OLAF in the European Union is an acronym for the Office Europeen de Lutte Anti-Fraude, the European Anti-Fraud Office.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /o/ol/olaf_1.html (136 words)

	Olaf Tryggvason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf was baptized with Æthelred, himself, as sponsor, and promised that "he would never come back to the English race in hostility." Nor did he, possibly because Olaf had allied himself with the king.
		Olaf is said to have remained in England through the winter and married Queen Gyda, the widowed sister of the king of Dublin, which was then a Viking town.
		They were led by Swein Forkbeard, the king of Denmark, who had married Sigrid, still smarting from the insult Olaf had given her and now his "greatest enemy," as well as the king of Sweden and Earl Eric, the son of Earl Håkon.
	itsa.ucsf.edu /~snlrc/britannia/maldon/olaftryggvason.html (653 words)

	Nordic Culture > Saint Olaf, Patron Saint of Norway - Scandinavica.com
		Olaf Haraldsson, born in AD 995, was a viking who raided throughout western Europe and the Baltic until his return to Norway in 1015, where he was elected king of the Norwegians with the support of the Upland chieftains.
		Although much of Norway was already Christian in those days, Olaf finished the job by bringing several missionary bishops from England to help to convert the remaining pagan areas of the country.
		Olaf Haraldsson was returning to Norway with a small Swedish army with the intention of regaining the Norwegian crown he had lost.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/history/olaf.htm (1186 words)

	Saints of July 29
		Saint Olaf was the son of a Norwegian jarl, Harald Grenske.
		Olaf fled to Russia but returned to Norway in 1031 with a few Swedish troops in an attempt to regain his kingdom, but was killed in battle at Stiklestad on the Trondheim fjord.
		In English iconography Olaf is included on the seals of Grimby Abbey and Herringfleet Priory in Suffolk, on the 15th-century screen at Barton Turf in Norfolk, on an ivory crozier in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and in glass at York Minster.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0729.htm (3075 words)

	Norway Heads
		At the age of ten, in 1363, Margrethe was married to King Håkon VI of Norway, son of Magnus II of Sweden and Norway.
		Their son Olaf, born in 1370, was elected King Olaf II of Denmark in 1375 at the death of Margrethe's father, with her as regent.
		She remained in Skåne until her death in 1605, but already in 1582 she had given Giske and all her other estates in Norway to the king, and was richly compensated - among other with all the income of the estate of the Convent of Børringe in her own lifetime.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /Norway_Heads.htm (1262 words)

	Detailed Country Profile: Norway
		In 1397, Norway was absorbed into a union with Denmark that was to last for more than four centuries.
		Norway proclaimed its neutrality at the outset of World War II, but was nonetheless occupied for five years by Nazi Germany (1940-45).
		Norway is an example of a nation far ahead of us in a number of quality of life issues.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/no (416 words)

	Heimskringla: Saga of Olaf Kyrre
		Olaf was a stout man, well grown in limbs; and every one said a handsomer man could not be seen, nor of a nobler appearance.
		King Olaf also had a great feasting-house built in Nidaros, and in many other merchant towns, where before there were only private feasts; and in his time no one could drink in Norway but in these houses, adorned for the purpose with branches and leaves, and which stood under the king's protection.
		King Olaf Haraldson, who was called by some Olaf Kyrre, but by many Olaf the Bonde, had a son by Thora, Joan's daughter, who was called Magnus, and was one of the handsomest lads that could be seen, and was promising in every respect.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Heimskringla/kyrre.html (2272 words)

	Saga Of Olaf Haraldson. (1) Page 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He did so: came there often, and spoke with the king's daughter; and at last entrusted her with the purpose of Bjorn's and his comrade's journey, and asked her how she thought the Swedish king would receive the proposal that there should be a reconciliation between the kings.
		The king's daughter replied, that, in her opinion, it would be a useless attempt to propose to the king any reconciliation with Olaf the Thick; for the king was so enraged against him, that he would not suffer his name to be mentioned before him.
		Thereafter, while Hakon Athelstan's foster-son was in Norway he sat in peace, until he began to maraud in Gautland and Denmark; on which a war-force came upon him, and took from him both life and land.
	milesdavis.ws /books/Chronicle_Kings_of_Norway/C7P11.shtml (1350 words)

	Laxdaela Saga - Day 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf Tryggvason, son of Tryggvi Olafsson, great-grandson of Harold Fair-Hair.
		Olaf grew up to be a very successful Viking leader (at the age of 18) raiding in the Baltic and also in England where he was an ally of Danish king Svein Forkbeard in 994.
		Olaf is overwhelmed (he has only 11 ships), he fights bravely and gloriously (like a dreng) on the Long Serpent but rather than be taken or killed he wraps himself in his scarlet cloak and jumps from the ship and is assumed dead.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2003spring/germ/051/001/laxdaela2.htm (861 words)

	Saint Olof's cruelty
		Olaf Haraldson, King of Norway, was recognized as a Saint after his death at the battle of Stiklestad fought in the year 1030 against the forces of Canute the Great, King of the Danes and the English.
		Considering Olaf's violence, the main criticism of the dissertation, in fact, was directed to his struggle for power, under the pretence of promoting Christian faith in Norway.
		Olaf's missionary work civilizing the country, his conflict with Canute and the reguli of Upland, were not to be considered as separate incidents.
	www.tkukoulu.fi /~ascoli/olavus.htm (2141 words)

	Norway 2005
		So in 2005, when Norway marks the 100-year anniversary of the peaceful dissolution of its union with Sweden, it should come as no surprise that St. Olaf will be a part of that commemoration.
		With events planned throughout Norway, Sweden and Denmark, as well as in, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and here in the United States, it promises to be one of the most widely commemorated centennials in history.
		Olaf is commemorating Norway’s Centennial Anniversary on both sides of the Atlantic.
	www.stolaf.edu /events/norway2005 (406 words)

	Heimskringla: Saga of Olaf Haraldson: Part III
		You promised Olaf the Thick your daughter Ingegerd, who, in all branches of her descent, is born of kings, and of the Upland Swedish race of kings, which is the most noble in the North; for it is traced up to the gods themselves.
		Olaf was to remain king over the country as long as he lived; but should hold peace and be reconciled with King Olaf of Norway, and also with all who had taken part in this business.
		Olaf king of Norway then threw, and had six upon one dice, and the other split in two, so as to make seven eyes in all upon it; and the district was adjudged to the king of Norway.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /OMACL/Heimskringla/haraldson3.html (10555 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Olaf I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olaf I, full name Olaf Tryggvason (968-1000), king of Norway (995-1000).
		Olaf II, also called St. Olaf (995-1030), king of Norway (1015-1028).
		A Viking (full name Olaf Haraldsson), he was converted to Christianity in Rouen,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Olaf_I.html (174 words)

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