The Viking Saint Olaf II of Norway 1st Edition by John Carr 1399087819 9781399087810
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ISBN 10: 1399087819
ISBN 13: 9781399087810
Author: John Carr
The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids . Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness and audacity, yet his routine baptism grew into a burning missionary faith that was all the more remarkable for being combined with his typically Viking determination and energy – and sometimes ruthlessness as well. His overriding mission was to Christianize Norway and extirpate heathenism. His unstinting efforts, often at great peril to his life, earned him the Norwegian throne in 1015, when he had barely reached his twenties. For the next fifteen years he laboured against immense odds to subdue the rebellious heathen nobles of Norway while fending off Swedish hostility. Both finally combined against Olaf in 1030, when he fell bravely in battle not far from Trondheim, still only in his mid-thirties. After his body was found to possess healing powers, and reports of them spread from Scandinavia to Spain and Byzantium, Olaf II was canonized a saint 134 years later. He remains Norway’s patron saint as well as a legendary warrior. Yet more remarkably, he remains a saint not only of the Protestant church but also of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches – perhaps the only European fighting saint to achieve such acceptance.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 London Bridge Fell Down
Chapter 2 ‘Never was such an atrocity seen’
Chapter 3 The Precursors I: St Anskar to Athelstan
Chapter 4 The Precursors II: Håkon the Goodand Olaf Tryggvason
Chapter 5 Conversion and Conquest
Chapter 6 Beware the Blinded Man
Chapter 7 The Swedish Princess
Chapter 8 ‘Hit it as hard as you can’
Chapter 9 Cnut’s Gold Ring
Chapter 10 The Last Battle
Chapter 11 The Saint
Chapter 12 Mission Accomplished
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