Battle of Stiklestad
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The Battle of Stiklestad in 1030 is one of the most famous battles in the history of Norway. In this battle, King Olaf II of Norway was killed. During the pontificate of Pope Alexander III, the Roman
The Death of Olaf II at the Battle of Stiklestad Peter Nicolai Arbo, c. 1859
King Olaf's fall
Saint Olaf
Memorial in Stalheim
Cnut
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Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united und
Battle of Stiklestad
…success in becoming King of Norway was helped by the Danes being kept occupied with the ongoing fighting in England. In the year 1028, the Danish king Cnut the Great made an alliance with the Lades, and Olaf had to go into exile in Kievan Rus'. In the year of 1029 the last Lade jarl, Haakon Ericsson, drowned, and…
Contemporary drawing of King Cnut from the New Minster Liber Vitae, 1031
This runestone in Sweden (U 194), in memory of a Viking known as Alli, says he won Knútr's payment in England.
Medieval illumination depicting Kings Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right), from the Chronica Majora written and illustrated by Matthew Paris
Silver penny of Cnut the Great with a quatrefoil on the obverse dating to the period c.1017–23