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Jan 10, 2000 · See Additional Media. From May 1 to 4, 1968, Norway's King Olav V (1903-1991) makes his third visit, and first as king, to the Seattle area. At every stop he is greeted enthusiastically by large crowds, many of them from the region's substantial Norwegian American community, and the king declares that he "feels more at home in Seattle than in any other United States city" ("King Olav's Visit
Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995 – 29 July 1030), also Olav Haraldsson, later known as Saint Olaf and Olaf the Holy, was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. Son of Harald Grenske, a petty king in Vestfold, Norway, he was posthumously given the title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae (English: Eternal/Perpetual King of Norway) and canonised at Nidaros by Bishop Grimketel, one year after his death in the Battle ...
Astrid Eiriksdatter. Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken ( Vingulmark, and Rånrike ), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I . Olaf was important in the conversion of the ...
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Apr 30, 2020 · April 30, 2020. Saint Olaf, otherwise known as King Olaf II of Norway (r. 1015-1028), gained his saintly title by waging a campaign of forced conversions in his Norwegian lands. The king, going from assembly to assembly, gave the communities under his jurisdiction an ultimatum—either convert from their Norse religion to Christianity, or try ...
Jan 18, 1991 · OSLO —. King Olav V, Norway’s widely respected king and the world’s oldest reigning monarch, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack, the Norwegian news agency NTB reported. He was 87 ...
Mar 29, 2024 · Olaf Tryggvason (born c. 964—died c. 1000) was a Viking king of Norway (995– c. 1000), much celebrated in Scandinavian literature, who made the first effective effort to Christianize Norway. Olaf, the great-grandson of the Norwegian king Harald I Fairhair and the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, a chieftain in southeastern Norway, was born soon ...
Olav V. Olav V ( Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈûːlɑːv dɛn ˈfɛ̂mtə]; [1] born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991. Olav was the only child of King Haakon VII of Norway and Maud of Wales. He became heir apparent to the Norwegian throne when his father was ...
