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6 days ago · King Olaf. Played by Steven Berkoff (seasons 5–6) A Norwegian king with whom Ivar seeks an alliance. Hvitserk is sent to broker the deal, but Hvitserk instead asks Olaf to help overthrow Ivar. The amused Olaf has Hvitserk imprisoned and tortured. When Hvitserk refuses to relent, the impressed Olaf agrees to attack Kattegat.
1 day ago · Olaf Tryggvason sent a Saxon missionary, Þangbrandr, to Iceland. Many Icelanders were angered by Þangbrandr's proselytising, and he was outlawed after killing several poets who insulted him. [88] Animosity between Christians and pagans on the island grew, and at the Althing in 998 both sides blasphemed each other's gods. [89]
3 days ago · The second of the three sons of Erik the Red, the first colonizer of Greenland, Leif sailed from Greenland to Norway shortly before 1000 to serve among the retainers at the court of Olaf I Tryggvason, who converted him to Christianity and commissioned him to urge that religion upon the Greenland settlers.
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2 days ago · It was the 'royal vill' of Andover whereat in 994 Ethelred concluded that treaty with Olaf Tryggvason which put a period to the harrying of England by the Norseman. In 1086 the Conqueror held Andover in demesne, as had the Confessor before him.
3 days ago · Olav Tryggvason er en sentral skikkelse i operaen. Tylldøl dirigerer. Siden har koret holdt sammen, først under musikalsk ledelse av Harald Bjørkøy, og nå under Lars Eggen fra Tylldalen, begge dyktige dirigenter og profesjonelle sangere. Lars Eggen har dirigert Olavs Menn siden høsten 2017. Overrasket.
2 days ago · Answer: Olaf I Olaf Tryggvason (c. 965-1000) was King of Norway from 995 until his death in September (Sweyn was also King of Norway in 1000, but not at the beginning of the year.) Olaf played an important (sometimes compulsory) role in the conversion of Norway to Christianity.
3 days ago · Tragically, in 978, King Edward the Martyr was assassinated, and his stepbrother, King Aethelred the Unready, ascended to the throne. Aethelred’s reign was marked by ongoing conflicts with Viking raiders and internal strife. In the Battle of Maldon in 991, Viking raiders, led by Olaf Tryggvason, faced the Anglo-Saxons.
