Saint Olaf (c. 995 – 29 July 1030), also called Saint Olav, Olaf the Holy, Olaf II, Olaf Haraldsson, and Olaf the Stout, was King of Norway from 1015...
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Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in...
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The St. Olaf Choir is a premier a cappella choir based in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1912 by Norwegian immigrant F. Melius Christiansen, the choir...
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Fairhair dynasty (redirect from Saint Olaf dynasty)
monarchical control over the country and assert that Olaf II (Olaf the Stout, who later became St. Olaf), who reigned from 1015, was the first king to have...
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Order of St. Olav (redirect from Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olaf)
The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (Norwegian: Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or Sanct Olafs Orden, the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian...
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illegitimate son of King Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf) by his English concubine Alfhild, originally a slave (thrall) of Olaf's queen Astrid Olofsdotter...
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Thor (category Supernatural beings identified with Christian saints)
the Christianizing king Olaf II of Norway (Saint Olaf; c. 995 – 1030) absorbed elements of both Thor and Freyr. After Olaf's death, his cult had spread...
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from 1139 Olaf Haraldsson Geirstadalf (c.877–c.934), Norwegian petty king Olaf I of Norway Tryggvason, 969–1000 Olaf II of Norway, or Saint Olaf, ruled 1015–1030...
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Bureau. Retrieved March 16, 2022. "Saint Olaf ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022. "St. Olaf, Iowa". Geographic Names Information...
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death of King Olaf II of Norway. In the aftermath of his death, King Olaf would later be canonized as Saint Olaf (Heilag Olav), patron saint of Norway. The...
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Waseca County, Minnesota (redirect from Saint Olaf Lake)
Reese Lake Rice Lake (Janesville Township) Rice Lake (Woodville Township) Saint Olaf Lake Sibert Lake Silver Lake Toners Lake Trenton Lake (part) Watkins Lake...
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King Olaf Haraldsson the Saint. Oldest Saga of St. Olaf, ca. 1190, mostly lost. Legendary Saga of St. Olaf, ca. 1210. Óláfs saga helga by Styrmir Kárason...
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the paternal grandfather of Saint Olaf, but modern scholars have suggested this pedigree was fabricated to link Saint Olaf to Harald Fairhair. After Gudrød's...
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accepted as historically correct by most modern historians. It replaced the Saint Olaf dynasty, and was again replaced by the Gille branch, whose founder Harald...
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rebellion, and the restoration of the former Norwegian dynasty under Saint Olaf's illegitimate son Magnus the Good. In 1014, while Cnut was preparing his...
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begun by Haakon the Good (d. 961) and was continued by Olaf Trygvesson (d. 1000) and Saint Olaf Haraldsson (d. 1030), two Vikings who had converted (and...
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Meurgey in 1941. In 1939 Jean Adigard des Gautries created the flag of Saint Olaf, a Nordic cross flag inspired by the Papal Cross borne on a standard by...
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Gudbrandsdatter (c. 975/980 – c. 1020/1030) was the mother of two Norwegian kings, Saint Olaf and Harald Hardrada. The primary source for the life of Åsta is Snorri...
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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)...
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Ringsaker (section Saint Olaf in 1018)
(Glomma). Ringsaker is again mentioned in a saga about 1018 when Olaf (later Saint Olaf) sent people to advise the Opplands that he was coming, as it was...
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King Olaf II of Norway (Óláfr Haraldsson) was killed. During the pontificate of Pope Alexander III, the Roman Catholic Church declared Olaf a saint in 1164...
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Tallinn (Reval) in 1219. Its dedication relates to King Olaf II of Norway (also known as Saint Olaf, 995–1030). The first known written records referring...
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in alternation with the Christian converters King Olaf Tryggvason and King Olaf Haraldsson (Saint Olaf). They produced praise poetry telling of their patrons'...
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half-brothers to King Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf). In his youth, Harald displayed traits of a typical rebel with big ambitions, and admired Olaf as his role...
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Anton Armstrong (category St. Olaf College alumni)
the Saint Olaf Choir. Updated n.d. December 10, 2005. Ashmore, Nancy J. 2004. Spirit voices. St. Olaf Magazine, September, 29. Tpt. 2005. A St. Olaf Christmas...
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Astrid Olavsdatter; English: Aestrith; died 1035) was the queen consort of Saint Olaf, who reigned over Norway from 1019 to 1028. She is the only woman to have...
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Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae (category Saint Olaf)
(Latin, i.e. Norway's Eternal King) is a term for King Olaf II of Norway, also known as Saint Olaf (Olav den hellige). In written sources, the term Perpetuus...
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the building, there is also a black and gold mosaic by Dobson depicting Saint Olaf, the Norwegian king who helped protect London from the Danes in 1014....
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Saint Olaf's chapel is a chapel in Kumla, Närke, Svealand in Sweden. The wooden chapel was built in 1935 after drawings by architect Karl Martin Westerberg...
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Saga of St. Olaf or Helgisaga Óláfs konungs Haraldssonar is one of the kings' sagas, a 13th-century biography of the 11th-century Saint Olaf II of Norway...
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