The Saga of Olaf Haraldson relates that St. Olaf commented as he first looked down on Lom, “ What a pity to have to lay waste to such a beautiful valley .” In the face of such a clear motivation, the residents of the valley converted ( it has since been a recurring discussion whether he looked to Lom or the neighbouring municipality Skjåk, at the time a part of Lom.

What Count Olaf meant by his reply is never clarified, and the question of who was responsible for the deaths of the Baudelaire Parents remains unanswered.

" What is that ," cried King Olaf, " that broke with such a noise?

', the phonetic spelling of " kick the bucket ", ( i. e. dying ), in The End ; references to people: " Busheney " ( an assumed portmanteau of Bush and Cheney ) to describe Count Olaf, followed by the definition of " you are a vile man who has no regard for anyone else ", or being written in other languages: " Shalom " or " Sayonara.

Olaf comes disguised as an auctioneer named Gunther, and this time he brings something else: the Quagmire triplets, hidden in a secret location.

This can stem either from natural causes such as in Olaf Stapledon's novel Odd John, and Theodore Sturgeon's More Than Human, or be the result of intentional augmentation such as in A. E. van Vogt's novel Slan.

All three Vikings ( Erik, Baleog and Olaf ) have three health points which they can lose by getting hurt by enemies or by falling from great heights, and the ability to carry and use items, mainly keys, bombs, and food ( which restore health points ).

* Olaf can block enemies and their projectiles with his shield, use his shield as a hang glider, or as a stepping stone for Erik to enable him to reach high grounds which is not possible without the shield.

* Olaf can release gas that propels him upward, giving him limited aerial range, as well as the power to destroy certain floors.

He can also fly until he gets exhausted, at which point he can glide softly down, like Olaf.

Both Olaf and Baleog make an appearance in the 1993 game Rock n ' Roll Racing ; Olaf can be unlocked as a hidden character, while Baleog appears on several billboards advertising " Viking Cola " on the planet Bogmire.

Knowing that Thorfinn has more power and can easily overtake him, Brusi visits King Olaf to try to gain his support in helping him maintain his control over his share.

It can also refer to Olaf III Guthfrithson of Dublin and to Olof III Skötkonung of Sweden.

The evolutionary perspective can be seen in tales involving long time periods — two examples being The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by Wells and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.

According to local traditions Olaf baptized many locals and the well he used can be seen near Hallsberg in the parish of Hardemo.

But, Sunny refuses, telling her sister that she can spy on Olaf and learn useful information.

Neither can one expect that recruitment was especially ample in Sweden or through the sparsely populated valleys through which Olaf travelled.

St. Olaf can refer to:

After the Battle of Stiklestad, the axe also became the symbol of St. Olaf and can still be seen on the Coat of Arms of Norway.

Violet then invents a bungee cord so that the siblings can escape from Heimlich Hospital, which Olaf has set on fire, so he and his henchmen can escape, an act he blames on the orphans.

* In The Hostile Hospital, Count Olaf disguises her as a patient so that he can conduct a fake operation and cut her head off.

) St. Olafs-stuggu, a building were St. Olaf is reported to have spent a night in 1021, can still be found here.

When the Baudelaires contact Poe at his bank ( Mulctuary Money Management ) to report Olaf's abuse, the banker points out that Olaf is acting in loco parentis, and can raise them as he sees fit.

He was a court poet to King Olaf II of Norway, as well as Canute the Great, Magnus the Good and Anund Jacob, by whose reigns his floruit can be dated to the earlier eleventh century.

As a bonus, players can collect eyes ; every ten eyes collected gives the player a poster for an Olaf theater production, and letters from the alphabet which start a word that gets defined.

* 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.

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* 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.