In the beginning it was frequently used as a military retainer ( Old Norse: " hird "- man ) of King Olav.

Saint Olav used a serpent within a white mark at the Battle of Nesjar.

Magnus the Good used the same mark as Saint Olav.

In Norway, the Maltese Cross is the symbol used in the Order of St. Olav.

Norwegian myths claim that a yellow, or golden cross on a red background was used as King Olav Haraldson's personal shield until his death at the battle of Stiklestad in AD 1030.

In the years prior to the founding of the city of Trondheim in 997 by Viking King Olav Tryggvason, Munkholmen was used as an execution site by the Jarls of Lade.

He was a nephew of Olav Aukrust, brother of Odd Aukrust, a noted economist who was responsible for research at Statistics Norway, and first cousin of Tor Aukrust.

It has been proposed ( most vociferously by Claus Krag ) that the genealogical lines between Harald Fairhair and the generation of Olav the Saint and Harald Hardråde is a construct in a later attempt to legitimize the then monarchs, and also provide a claim to the region of Viken ( the area around the present-day Oslo ), a claim challenged by the Danish.

* 1968 – Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater

Johann Olav Koss ( born 29 October 1968 ) is a former speed skater from Norway, considered to be one of the best in history, and current assistant coach of Norway's speed skating team.

Johann Olav Koss won three speed skating events, while 13-year-old Kim Yoon-Mi became the youngest-ever Olympic gold medalist.

In 1376 Olav inherited the crown of Denmark from his maternal grandfather as King Oluf III, with his mother as guardian.

Olav also had designs on the throne of Sweden ( in opposition to Albert of Mecklenburg ) from 1385 until 1387.

* Prince Olav Harbour ( from 1911 – 1916 factory ship and small land-based station 1917 – 1931 )

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

Due to the introduction of Lutheran Protestantism in 1537, the last Archbishop, Olav Engelbrektsson, had to flee from the city to the Netherlands, where he died in present-day Lier, Belgium.

Molde was in effect the capital of Norway for a week after King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav, and members of the government and parliament arrived at Molde on April 23, after a dramatic flight from Oslo.

Kings of Norway until King Olav IV, who died in 1387, claimed descent from Harald Fairhair.

Norwegian resistance was led by Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Trondheim, who invited the old king Christian II back from his exile in Holland.

Detail on a pewter fork handle from Norway, showing three scenes: the Viking King Olaf II of Norway | Heilag Olav, His People, and a Viking ship

Olav V ( Alexander Edward Christian Frederik ; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991 ) was the King of Norway from 1957 until his death.

Olav jumped from the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo, and also competed in sailing regattas.

King Olav V opened the 14th World Scout Jamboree in July 1975 in the presence of 17, 259 Scouts from 94 countries.

Founded in 2001 by Olav Bergheim, Richard Hill and Mory Gharib, the company has raised $ 126 million in venture funding from Versant Ventures, OrbiMed Advisors, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, InterWest Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Domain Associates, Fjord Capital Management and Montreux Equity Partners.

The earliest known reference to aquavit is found in a 1531 letter from the Danish Lord of Bergenshus castle, Eske Bille to Olav Engelbrektsson, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Norway.

The Sami parliament was opened in 1989, by King Olav V, the first Sami parliament president was Ole Henrik Magga, from Kautokeino.

* In the Heimskringla attributed to Snorri Sturluson, it is recorded that in 1023 Saint Olav came unannounced from Sogn as part of his campaign to Christianize Norway.

* St. Olav ( or Olav Haraldsson ) reigned from 1015 to 1030.

The designer was Olav Sandø, from Eidsvåg.

* Horga is a pagan place of sacrifice which was destroyed by Olav Trygvason, which lies from Holmen Gård.

The cross is taken from a large painting in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, in which the death of King Olav Haraldsson ( Saint Olaf ) is shown.

In 1960 he received the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav from the Norwegian King.

Olav Aukrust joined the Anthroposophical Society in December 1921 after he and his wife, Gudrun Aukrust, traveled through Goetheanum on their way home from Italy.

Freeflying is a skydiving discipline which began in the late 1980s when Olav Zipser began experimenting with non-traditional forms of bodyflight.

Among the established lyrists, Olav H. Hauge transitioned to modernistic and concretist poetry and enjoyed a renaissance, especially with his collection entitled Dropar in austavind, which inspired other, younger Norwegian poets, such as Jan Erik Vold.

The British Film Institute houses an early film, made in 1913, in which a miniature car commissioned by Queen Alexandra for the Crown Prince Olav tows a procession of Londoners through the streets of the capital, before being delivered to a pair of ' royal testers ' of roughly Olav's age.

An interview given by King Harald V, and hints in a biography by Jo Benkow, who was the president of the parliament in that time, mention the possibility that King Olav suffered great trauma upon learning of the outbreak of the first Gulf War, which began the day of his death.

The oldest parts of the cathedral consist of the octagon with its surrounding ambulatory in which was the original high altar with the reliquary casket of St. Olav and choir.

The one in the octagon at the east end of the chancel rests on the site of the medieval high altar which bore the silver reliquary casket containing the remains of St. Olav, the church's and the kingdom's patron saint, and is designed to recall in marble sculpture the essential form of this reliquary casket.

It is an iron buckle which is forged to look like a withy binding, and legend has it that it was on St. Olav's horse's bridle when St. Olav shot the arrow that determined the location of the Våler church.

When Aalesund opened their new stadium in April 2005, businessman Olav Nils Sunde donated a statue to the club, which was erected in front of the stadium.

His action saved some 5000 Norwegians for which King Haakon of Norway awarded him the Ridderkors ( Knight's Cross ) of St. Olav in 1943.

Martin Olav Sabo ( born February 28, 1938 ) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ( DFL ) and a former United States Representative for, which includes Minneapolis ; the district is one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota.

Queen Josephine of Leuchtenberg of Norway and Sweden, the consort of Oscar I, asked for the one known remaining relic of St. Olaf, an ulna or radius in a medieval reliquary in the Danish National Museum, from King Frederick VII of Denmark, which he gave to her and which she in turn gave to St. Olaf's Cathedral ( Sankt Olav domkirke ) in Oslo in August 1862.

Mount Wade is a massive mountain which is a most distinctive landmark in its region, standing six kilometres northwest of Mount Campbell in the Prince Olav Mountains of Antarctica.

Norse sagas in which Augvald is depicted includes the Flateyjarbok, the Saga of Olav Tryggvason ( from both Heimskringla and Oddr Snorrason ), and the Saga of Half & His Heroes.

Excavations have revealed foundations of buildings believed to date back to before 1100, which might have been erected by King Olav Kyrre.

Examples of discussion of this issue can be found in the works of: Martina Timmermann et al., Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Regional Steps toward Global Governance ; Douglas Lewis, Global Governance and the Quest for Justice-Volume I: International and Regional Organizations ; Olav Schram Stokke, " Examining the Consequences of International Regimes ," which discusses Northern, or Arctic region building in the context of international relations ; Jeffery Hart and Joan Edelman Spero, " Globalization and Global Governance in the 21st Century ," which discusses the push of countries such as Mexico, Brazil, India, China, Taiwan, and South Korea, " important regional players " seeking " a seat at the table of global decision-making "; Dr. Frank Altemöller, “ International Trade: Challenges for Regional and Global Governance: A comparison between Regional Integration Models in Eastern Europe and Africa – and the role of the WTO ”, and many others.

Sverre Støstad, Fredrik Monsen and Olav Larssen were excluded from the party in 1927 because of disagreements surrounding the reunification of Labour Party ( which merged with the Social Democratic Labour Party ).

Turville-Petre speaks of a " decisive reconstruction of Harald's ancestry probably carried out by Icelanders, some two hundred years after his time " which made Halfdan the Black the progenitor of a dynasty which stretched in three branches from Harald Fairhair to Olaf Tryggvason, Olav II and Harald.

Based on historical sources, this claimed descent from Harald I is of much later origin than the claims of descent of Olav I and Olav II, which apparently were known to their contemporaries, not made only a century or so later as seems to be the case with Harald III.