Talk:Olaf II of Norway

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"to win back the kingdom after Knut the Great's vassal Håkon Jarl was lost at sea"
The grandson of this Jarl is meant here. I dont know if there is an article about him in English. It is at least in Norwegian.
:Apparently subsequently resolved by Rrostrom --Frans Fowler (talk) 17:48, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: You NEED to pick one and stick to it in this article.  "Olav" is suddenly used as a section header name and then within that section without any prior reference.  Very confusing.  Moncrief 16:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All the Olavs are with v not f in Norway. Inge 17:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then you either need to change the whole article to "v" or keep it all "f."  The point is you can't change the spelling of the subject of the article halfway through without explanation.  It's called standardization and it's expected in all articles.  Moncrief 19:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the English wikipedia, in England his name is spelled Olaf. Besides the ON spell was Óláfr, the English spelling is therefore closer to his actual name, and pronunciation, than the modern Norwegian form. DDH89 00:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Olave added to lead paragraph--Frans Fowler (talk) 08:42, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olaf vs. Olav 

message: According to the map was Jämtland a part of Olav's realm. This is incorrect since he made two failed attempts to collect taxes from Jämtland. The population there preferred to pay their taxes to Sweden and killed the Norwegian tax collectors. See Heimskringla, Olav the Holy's saga chapter 63 and 141.
Incorrect. Jamtland ruled themselves at first, but as it grew it became more and more interesting for both Swedish and Norwegian kings. Both countries tried to gain controll and while Sweden failed, Norway suceeded. 155.55.60.110 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 06:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The map is wrong 

message: There is a Citation needed for the statement, "Olaf is generally held to be the driving force behind Norway's final conversion to Christianity."
Professor Kenneth W. Harl, in his series "The Vikings" for the Teaching Company says this, "But far more important was his defeat at Stiklestad which is seen as a great Christian martyrdom.  And from that point on there is no way Norway is ever going to go to the pagan cults and traditions.  To be sure, many Norweagens continue to worship the old gods, but henceforth Christianity is the religion of the court.  They have their own royal saint.  It is the legitimate, the only legitimate religion in Norway and and associated with this only legitimate family."
This can be found in the last two minutes of the thirty-second lecture in the series "The Vikings".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fogus (talk • contribs) 01:07, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible citation for statement under "Christianisation" 

message: While tidying this article, I found a statement in the notes that the translation of this section was copyrighted. I moved the copyright statement to a footnote and have now deleted the section as copyvio; the translator named appears to have died in 2012 and there is no evidence of the translation being released under a compatible licence. It remains in the history in case such permission can be shown to have been granted. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:07, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propers of the Mass for the Feast of St. Olaf 

message: Why does this article have two different infoboxes? He's just one person. If there are two different interesting aspects to his life, then try to cover it in the article text; or if you really need an infobox then try to summarise everything in that one infobox; but retaining two infoboxes is silly. bobrayner (talk) 23:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infoboxes 

message: I am removing the Religion line from the infobox. Olaf's own religion is apparently unclear or controversial (see the Problems of Olaf as Christianising king section in the article), and he is venerated and commemorated by various churches now (see the article's lead paragraph). At the time of my edit, Olaf's religion was stated in the infobox to be Catholic Christianity and in earlier versions of the article it had been Chalcedonian Christianity, both of which descriptions seem anachronistic and misleading: Olaf died before the east-west schism and long before the reformation, and long after the Council of Chalcedon. --Frans Fowler (talk) 18:16, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've restored Chalcedonian Christianity since that is the common appellation of the pre-schism church, and is listed as the religion of other contemporary figures on Wikipedia (see e.g. Æthelstan).--Newbiepedian (talk · contribs · X! · logs) 02:37, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion Removed from Infobox 

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message: Hi, 
the section "Reign" contains the following claims: " ,,, ... in 1029 the Norwegian nobles, seething with discontent, supported the invasion of King Cnut the Great of Denmark. .....  he fell in 1030 at the Battle of Stiklestad, where some of his own subjects from central Norway took arms against him". These claims reveal an ignorance of the legal situation 
I think it is necessary to recall that at the time, it was the people who decided who got to be king and who did not. Any would-be ruler of Norway had to be hailed as king by the various regional tings (yes, I know, but "regional things" reads so awkward). As heir, Knut had a legitimate claim to rule Norway, and he was accepted and hailed as king at the Øyrating. As of that moment, Olav was no longer the king, and the inhabitants of Norway were no longer his subjects. IOW, although Knut showed up in force, this was not an invasion.
When Olav returned to try to regain - or usurp, one might say - the throne, one of the perfectly valid legal claims by his opponents was that he acted in contravention of the Law, and the punishment for this, whoever did it, was death. So Stiklestad was more of a police action (no problems with police brutality in that period) than anything like a rebellion. Olaf was the "rebel", not the ones who killed him. T 85.166.161.28 (talk) 22:52, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motstandsretten is a NO language page on the people's right to regicide if the king broke the law, given in para 75 of the Frostating law; in support of Olav II being killed at Stiklestad because he acted in contravention of the law. T 84.208.65.62 (talk) 21:39, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background for Stiklestad battle 

message: Why dosent it say that he's a saint in the quick links. In almost all wiki articles about saints theres a yellow banner confiriming Sainthood. If there was one it would be easiser to see that hes a saint straight away Fgzeb (talk) 19:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sainthood