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Olaf was born around 820, in Ireland.His father was the Hiberno-Norse warlord Ingjald Helgasson.Some traditional sources portray Olaf as a descendant of Ragnar Lodbrok – for instance, the Eyrbyggja Saga, claims that Olaf's paternal grandmother (Thora) was a daughter of Ragnar's son Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye.
He is usually called Óláfr hvítaskáld (O.N.: [ˈxwiːtɑˌskɑːld]; M.I.: [ˈkʰviːtaˌskault]; "Olaf the white skald") in contrast to a contemporary skald called Óláfr svartaskáld ("Olaf the black skald").
The White Viking (alternative title Embla, Icelandic: Hvíti víkingurinn, Norwegian: Den hvite viking) is a 1991 film set in Norway and Iceland during the reign of Olaf I of Norway. The film loosely follows actual events. Embla is the director's cut of The White Viking and was released on DVD in 2007. It premiered at the Reykjavik ...
He was born around 850 AD and was the son of Olaf the White, King of Dublin, and Aud the Deep-minded, who was the daughter of Ketil Flatnose. [1] After the death of Olaf, Aud and Thorstein went to live in the Hebrides, then under Ketil's rule. [2] Thorstein eventually became a warlord and allied with the Jarl of Orkney, Sigurd Eysteinsson. [1]
Gyda choosing to marry Olaf Tryggvason, from Gustav Storm and Ethel Harriet Hearn's 1899 translation of The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant. In 988, Olaf sailed to England, because a thing had been called by Queen Gyda, sister of Olaf Cuaran, King of Dublin. Gyda was the widow of an earl, and was searching for a new husband. A ...
Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta or The Greatest Saga of Óláfr Tryggvason [1] is generically a hybrid of different types of sagas and compiled from various sources in the fourteenth century, but is most akin to one of the kings' sagas.
Olaf first conclusively appears in contemporary records in 933 when the annals describe him plundering Armagh on 10 November. [2] He is then recorded as allying with Matudán mac Áeda, overking of Ulaid and raiding as far as Sliabh Beagh, where they were met by an army led by Muirchertach mac Néill of Ailech, and lost 240 men in the ensuing battle along with much of their plunder.
King Olaf presenting a sword to Sigvatr Þórðarson, Christian Krohg, 1899 Sigvatr Þórðarson or Sighvatr Þórðarson or Sigvat the Skald [ a ] (995–1045) was an Icelandic skald . 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 ...