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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").
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]
Olaf the White (9th century), Viking sea-king, possibly synonymous with Amlaíb Conung; Amlaíb Cenncairech, King of Limerick, ruled 932–937; Amlaíb of Scotland, (died 977), King of Scots
Cleitus the White (died 318 BC), an officer of Alexander the Great; Konrad X the White (1420–1492), Duke of Oleśnica, Koźle, Bytom and half of Ścinawa; Leszek the White (c. 1186–1227), Prince of Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland; Olaf the White, a Viking sea-king of the latter half of the 9th century
Olaf or Olav (/ ˈ oʊ l ə f /, / ˈ oʊ l ɑː f /, or British / ˈ oʊ l æ f /; Old Norse: Áleifr, Ólafr, Óleifr, Anleifr) is a Dutch, Polish, Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as *Anu-laibaz , from anu "ancestor, grand-father" and laibaz "heirloom, descendant".
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.
Amlaíb Conung (Old Norse: Óláfr [ˈoːˌlɑːvz̠]; died c. 874) was a Viking [nb 1] leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century. He was the son of the king of Lochlann, identified in the non-contemporary Fragmentary Annals of Ireland as Gofraid, and brother of Auisle and Ímar, the latter of whom founded the Uí Ímair dynasty, and whose descendants would go on to dominate ...