Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Most of the kings in Norway also have the name Wahlgren or August as their second or third name. Among several problems, the house of King Harald I became patrilineally extinct already when Harald's grandson Harald II died in 970. [1] Another example is that King Sverre's claim of being the son of King Sigurd II is disputed by modern scholars. [2]
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.
Traditionally established in 872 and existing continuously for over 1,100 years, the Kingdom of Norway is one of the oldest states of Europe: King Harald V, who has reigned since 1991, is the 64th monarch according to the official list. [2] During interregna, Norway has been ruled by variously titled regents.
The country became Christian in the year 1000, introduced by Leif Eiriksson who was commissioned by King Olaf Tryggvason, and was later a separate diocese. (According to the Saga of Erik the Red , Leif became the first European to discover the North American continent when he was blown off course during his voyage back to Greenland from Norway.)
It too traces the descendants of the primeval Finnish ruler Fornjotr back through Nór and his siblings, Góí and Gór; Nór being here the eponym and first great king of Norway, and then gives details of the descendants of Nór and of his brother Gór in the following section known as the Ættartölur ('Genealogies', a.k.a. Fundinn Noregr ...
Sigurd and His Wife Åsta consulting Olaf II the Holy. The traditional view of Sigurd Halvdansson Syr's pedigree, as presented in various Icelandic poems and historical sagas culminating in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla, is that he was a great-grandson of King Harald Fairhair, through Harald's son Sigurd Rise.
The Battle of Svolder ca. 1000 would be a major battle in the Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars, the battle would end in a major defeat for the Fairhair dynasty and Olaf Tryggvason would die in this battle. Norway would be divided by Denmark, Sweden, and Earls of Lade, Sweyn Forkbeard of Danmark would be crowned as king of Norway.
Olaf II of Norway, Olaf the Saint, (reigned 1015–1028) Olaf III of Norway, Olaf Kyrre, (reigned 1067–1093) Olaf Magnusson of Norway, (reigned 1103–1115) Olav Ugjæva (died 1169), anti-king against Magnus V of Norway; Olaf IV of Norway, Olaf Haakonsson, also Olaf II of Denmark, (reigned 1380–1387) Olaf V of Norway, (reigned 1957–1991)