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* Olaf IV of Norway, king 1370 – August 23, 1387
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Olaf and 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 ).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
* Battle of Maldon: The Anglo-Saxons are defeated by Viking invaders led by Olaf Tryggvason, later Olaf I of Norway.
Olaf and king
* 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.
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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