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Olaf and IV
* 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 23 King Olaf IV of Norway / Olaf III of Denmark ( b. 1370 )
On his father's death in 1380, Olaf also succeeded to the Norwegian throne, as King Olav IV.
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 ).
Olaf was son of King Haakon VI of Norway and the grandson of King Magnus IV of Sweden.
When his grandfather Valdemar IV of Denmark died, Olaf was just five years old.
In the charter Olaf agreed to meet with the Danehof at least once a year and return properties his grandfather Valdemar IV had confiscated during his reign.
it: Olaf IV di Norvegia
nl: Olaf IV van Noorwegen
The ' Ættartölur ' account ends to a genealogy of Harald's royal descendants down to Olaf IV of Norway with the statement that the account was written in 1387, and with a list of the kings of Norway from this Olaf back to Harald Fair-hair.
* Olaf II of Denmark was also Olaf IV of Norway
The Ættartölur end with a genealogy of Harald's royal descendants down to Olaf IV of Norway with the statement the account was written in 1387, a list of the kings of Norway from this Olaf back to Harald Fair-hair, and a mention of the accession of Margaret, Olaf's mother, as direct ruler of Norway.
: The ' Ættartölur ' account ends with a genealogy of Harald's royal descendants down to Olaf IV of Norway with the statement the account was written in 1387, a list of the kings of Norway from this Olaf back to Harald Fair-hair, and a mention of the accession of Margaret, Olaf's mother, as direct ruler of Norway.
He was always counted as " Olaf IV " until 1957 ( when Olav V became king, who otherwise would have been VI ), and counting him was dropped from the official Norwegian list of monarchs.

Olaf and Norway
* 1031 Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
** Olaf II of Norway ( Translation of the relic )
None of these earlier sources mentions Freyja or king Olaf Tryggvason, the historical figure who christianized Norway and Iceland in the 10th Century.
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.
** Olaf II of Norway
In the other version of the story, Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson accidentally discovers the new land when travelling from Norway back to Greenland after a visit to his overlord, King Olaf Tryggvason, who commissions him to spread Christianity in the colony.
A half-brother of St Olaf, Harald cut his teeth as a mercenary in Russia and Byzantium before returning to Norway in the mid-1040s.
* 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 II, King of Norway
* 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
* Olaf Tryggvason flees Norway with his mother, only to be attacked by Estonian Vikings.
* Battle of Nesjar ( Norway ): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over Sveinn Hakonarson.
* Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway and builds the country's first church.

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

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