* September 9 – Olaf I of Norway ( killed at the Battle of Svold ) ( b. 969 )

* Battle of Maldon: The Anglo-Saxons are defeated by Viking invaders led by Olaf Tryggvason, later Olaf I of Norway.

* Olaf I of Norway

* August 18 – King Olaf I of Denmark

However, they made themselves unpopular by heavy taxation and favouring Danish advisers over the Norwegian nobles, and when King Magnus I of Norway, the son of the former King of Norway, Olaf, invaded in 1035, they were forced to flee to Harthacnut's court.

In 1276, Magnus Barnlock allegedly married a second wife Haelwig, daughter of Gerard I of Holstein ( through her mother Elisabeth of Mecklenburg, she was a descendant of Christina, the putative daughter of Sweartgar II of Sweden and Queen Wolfhilda, she a descendant of Aestrith Olofsdotter, Queen of Norway and daughter of Olaf Scotking of Sweden ).

King Olaf I of Norway's arrival to Norway Based on drawing by Peter Nicolai Arbo

His brother and successor, Olaf I, was given the nickname Hunger because he was unable to do anything about the famine that ravaged Denmark for years after Canute's death.

The Battle of Brunanburh was an English victory in 937 by the army of Æthelstan, King of England, and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owen I, King of Strathclyde.

Fleeing the Normans, Turgot became the teacher of Olaf Kyrre in Norway for a time before returning to be made prior of the Benedictine convent of Durham Cathedral, and he may have been the confessor of Margaret of Wessex, the second wife of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, king of the Scots, and hence probably known to King Alexander I and Earl David ( later David I ) since childhood.

In 940, Oda arranged a truce between Olaf III Guthfrithson, king of Dublin and York, and Edmund I, king of England.

Saint Olaf ( king of Norway from 1015 to 1028 ) was born in Hole, near where the 12th century Bønsnes church is located, to Harold Grenske ( a grandson of Harald I of Norway ) and his wife Asta.

The site had probably been named after two Viking Era mounds, which tradition links to two sons of King Harald I, Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, who was king in Vestfold, and his half-brother, Sigrød Haraldsson, king of Trondheim.

# REDIRECT Olaf I of Norway

* The exiled Norwegian King Olaf the Holy, stayed in Närke for some time, 1028 – 1029, with Sigtrygg, before departing for Russia and its ruler Yaroslav I the Wise.

Norway was Christianized as a result of mission from both the British Isles by Haakon I of Norway, Olaf I of Norway and from the Continent Ansgar.

* Queen Astrid Eiriksdottir, daughter of Eirik Bjodaskalle and mother of Olaf I of Norway, who ruled Norway from 995-1000

The warriors of the fleet, mostly made up of peasants who needed to be home for the harvest season, got weary of waiting, and elected Canute's brother Olaf ( the later Olaf I of Denmark ) to argue their case.

He was succeeded by Olaf as Olaf I of Denmark.

* Olaf I of Norway and a Jomsviking contingent departed from Jomsborg for the Battle of Svolder in 999 or 1000 AD.

Reno was born in Miami, Florida to Henry Olaf Reno ( original surname Rasmussen ), an emigrant from Denmark, who, for 43 years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald.

* February – Olaf II of Denmark becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margaret as regent.

** Olaf IV of Norway / Olaf III of Denmark ( b. 1370 )

* August 22 – Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark and claimant to the throne of Sweden, dies.

* August 23 – King Olaf IV of Norway / Olaf III of Denmark ( b. 1370 )

Haakon and Margrethe's son, Olaf, became King of Denmark in 1376.

Olaf II Haakonsson ( 1370 – 23 August 1387 ) was king of Denmark as Olaf II ( 1376 – 1387 ) and king of Norway as Olaf IV ( 1380 – 1387 ).

When his grandfather Valdemar IV of Denmark died, Olaf was just five years old.

A group of merchants from Denmark asked him if he was not well known in Denmark, since he looked very much like the late King Olaf.

The high born of the town welcomed Olaf as the rightful King of Denmark and Norway and gave him fine clothes and presents.

After his confirmation as King of Norway, Olaf traveled to the parts of Norway that had not been under the rule of Haakon, but that of the King of Denmark ; they too swore rudely at him.

Also, sometimes Olaf II of Denmark is numbered as III when counting a previous anti-king.

Under the reign of Olaf, Denmark suffered from crop failure, which was seen as divine retribution for the sacrilege killing of Canute.

After that, the noble man, king Olaf, went back to his realm.

None of these earlier sources mentions Freyja or king Olaf Tryggvason, the historical figure who christianized Norway and Iceland in the 10th Century.

Men could be elevated to the rank of elves after death, such as the petty king Olaf Geirstad-Elf.

Olaf became the king of Dublin as Olaf Cuaran and continued to be allied to his god-father.

Early in the 11th century Sigmund or Sigmundur Brestisson, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the northern, was sent from Norway, whither he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway.

* The Ormen Lange (" The Long Serpent ") was the most famous longship of Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason.

In 945, Edmund of Wessex, having expelled Amlaíb Cuaran ( Olaf Sihtricsson ) from Northumbria, devastated Cumbria and blinded two sons of Domnall mac Eógain, king of Strathclyde.

* St Olaf ( Olav Haraldsson ), patron saint of Norway, and king of Norway from 1015 to approx.

* Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway from 995 to 1000.

* Olaf Magnusson of Norway, king

* Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway and builds the country's first church.

* Anund Jacob ( circa 1010-1050 ), king of Sweden, succeeded Olaf as king in c. 1022.

King Olaf Kyrre ( 1067 – 1093 ) was the first Norwegian king to be literate.

* Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf, king of Vingulmark, later also Vestfold.

Olaf sought to reclaim the Norwegian throne, which he had lost to the Danish king Cnut the Great two years prior.

The battle was part of an attempt to restore Olaf to the Norwegian throne, which had been taken by the Danish king Cnut the Great two years earlier.

An early suggestion is that the name for the king in York in the Life of Cathróe has been erroneously supplanted for Eric's predecessor Amlaíb Cuarán ( Olaf Sihtricsson ), whose ( second ) wife Dúnflaith was an Irishwoman.

Amlaíb Cuarán succeeded him and did so with popular support, as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( MS D ) reports that in 941, “ the Northumbrians belied their pledges, and chose Olaf Amlaíb Cuarán from Ireland as their king .” Amlaíb shared the throne with his nephew Ragnald ( Rögnvaldr ), son of Gofraid.