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Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000. He was the son of Tryggvi Olafsson, king of Viken (Vingulmark, and Rånrike), and, according to later sagas, the great-grandson of Harald Fairhair, first King of Norway. He is numbered as Olaf I.
Olaf Tryggvason (born c. 964—died c. 1000) was a Viking king of Norway (995– c. 1000), much celebrated in Scandinavian literature, who made the first effective effort to Christianize Norway.
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Mar 15, 2023 · The man behind his father's murder, Harald Greycloak, had recently seized the throne from King Haakon the Good, and his father may well have been a supporter of the ousted king. With Greycloak's attention now turning to the mother and child in hiding, they fled to Oppland in Sweden, where Olaf's grandfather lived.
Olaf I Tryggrason (968-1000) was a Viking warrior, who acquired wealth and fame by his raids in Britain and strove to bring national leadership and Christianity to pagan, politically divided tenth-century Norway.
Dec 15, 2023 · In the annals of Viking history, Olaf Tryggvason stands as a towering figure, his life woven into the very fabric of Norse legend. Born circa 963 AD, his saga begins in an era marked by the...
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Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta also known as Mesta or the Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason, is an extended biography of Óláfr Tryggvason compiled around 1300. A version is contained in Flateyjarbók, compiled c. 1390.
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Nov 27, 2016 · Although Olaf Haraldsson was the great national saint at the time when these works were composed, the main figure in the conversion historiography is his predecessor Olaf Tryggvason.
