Medievalists.net » Olaf II http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Buried, Forgotten, Disinterred?: The 1944 National Socialist St. Olav Monument at Stiklestad http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/17/buried-forgotten-disinterred-the-1944-national-socialist-st-olav-monument-at-stiklestad/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/17/buried-forgotten-disinterred-the-1944-national-socialist-st-olav-monument-at-stiklestad/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:34:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59808 In 'Buried, Forgotten, Disinterred?: The 1944 National Socialist St. Olav Monument at Stiklestad', Øystein Ekroll gave the audience a glimpse into a struggle going on in Norway as it deals with its Nazi past.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/17/buried-forgotten-disinterred-the-1944-national-socialist-st-olav-monument-at-stiklestad/feed/ 0 “Viking” Pilgrimage to the Holy Land fram! fram! cristmenn, crossmenn, konungsmenn! (Oláfs saga helga, ch. 224.) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/08/viking-pilgrimage-holy-land-fram-fram-cristmenn-crossmenn-konungsmenn-olafs-saga-helga-ch-224/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/08/viking-pilgrimage-holy-land-fram-fram-cristmenn-crossmenn-konungsmenn-olafs-saga-helga-ch-224/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2014 03:36:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51730 The Viking predilection for travel and adventure made it easy for Christianized Scandinavians to adopt the idea of pilgrimage. It was, after all, not entirely unlike their own secular tradition of going a-viking.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/08/viking-pilgrimage-holy-land-fram-fram-cristmenn-crossmenn-konungsmenn-olafs-saga-helga-ch-224/feed/ 0 Olaf Haraldsson’s Relics – an Example of ‘Hagiocracy’ in Scandinavia http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/olaf-haraldssons-relics-an-example-of-hagiocracy-in-scandinavia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/18/olaf-haraldssons-relics-an-example-of-hagiocracy-in-scandinavia/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:55:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30320 The model of “the suffering leader” was quite a common model of saint-hood in the medieval North. Throughout the Middle Ages, the majority of the saints venerated in the West (especially in non-Mediterranean countries), were kings and princes.

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