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Olaf Tryggvason
King of Norway from 995 to 1000
Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000.
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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.
Olaf was important in the conversion of the Norse to Christianity, but he did so forcibly within his own kingdom.[2][3][4][5][6] He is said to have built the first Christian church in Norway in 995, and to have founded the city of Trondheim in 997.
A statue dedicated to him is located in the city's central plaza.
King olaf vikings realHistorical information on Olaf is sparse. He is mentioned in some contemporary English sources,[7] and some skaldic poems. The oldest narrative source mentioning him briefly is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum of circa 1070.
In the 1190s, two Latin version