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See also:OLAF I . TRYGGVESSaN (969–1000) was See also:born in 969, and began his meteoric career in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile. It is even said that he was bought as a slave in See also:Esthonia. After a boyhood spent in See also:Novgorod under the See also:protection of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Valdemar, Olaf fought for the See also:emperor See also:Otto III. under the Wendish king Burislav, whose daughter he had married. On her See also:death he followed the example of his countrymen, and harried in See also:France and the See also:British Isles, till, i-1 a See also:good See also:day for the See also:peace of those countries, he was converted to See also:Christianity by a See also:hermit in the Scilly Islands, and his marauding expeditions ceased since he would not harry those of his new faith. In See also:England he married Gyda, See also:sister of Olaf Kvaran, king of See also:Dublin, and it was only after some years spent in administering her See also:property in England and See also:Ireland that he set See also:sail for See also:Norway, fired by reports of the unpopularity of its ruler See also:Earl See also:Haakon. Arriving in Norway in the autumn of 995, he was unanimously accepted as king, and at once set about the See also:conversion of the See also:country to Christianity, undeterred by the obstinate resistance of the See also:people. It has been suggested that Olaf's ambition was to See also:rule a See also:united, as well as a See also:Christian, Scandinavia, and we know that he made overtures of See also:marriage to Sigrid, See also:queen of See also:Sweden, and set about adding new See also:ships to his See also:fleet, when negotiations See also:fell through owing to her obstinate heathenism. He made an enemy of her, and did not hesitate to involve himself in a See also:quarrel with King Sveyn of See also:Denmark by marrying his sister Thyre, who had fled from her See also:heathen See also:husband Burislav in See also:defiance of her See also:brother's authority. $0th his Wendish and his Irish wife had brought Olaf See also:wealth and good See also:fortune, but Thyre was his undoing, for it was on an expedition undertaken in the See also:year loco to wrest her lands from Burislav that he was waylaid off the See also:island Svold, near Rtigen,
. by the combined See also:Swedish and Danish fleets, together with the ships of Earl Haakon's sons. The See also:battle ended in the annihilation of the Norwegians. Olaf fought to the last on his See also:great See also:vessel, the " See also:Long Snake," the mightiest See also:ship in the See also:North, and finally leapt overboard and was no more seen. Full of See also:energy and daring, skilled in the use of every See also:kind of weapon, genial and
open-handed to his See also:friends, implacable to his enemies, O1afis See also:personality was the ideal of the heathendom he had trodden down with such reckless disregard of his people's prejudices, and it was no doubt as much owing to the popularity his See also:character won for him as to the strength of his position that he was able to force his will on the country with impunity. After his death he remained the See also:hero of his people, who whispered that he was yet alive and looked for his return.
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