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Viking raider Olaf Tryggvason, newly converted to Christianity, threw his weight behind a Danish invasion of England.
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Viking raider Olaf Tryggvason, taking a break on the Isles of Scilly, cannot resist the temptation to hear his fortune told.
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Captain Cook’s friend and ship’s surgeon David Samwell gives us his impressions of the great explorer.
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With Christianity faltering in the British Isles, Pope Gregory took the first definite steps towards restoring its vigour.
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In 1014, Norwegian prince Olaf Haraldsson sailed to the aid of King Ethelred the Unready in his struggle with the Danes.
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Zealous convert Olaf Tryggvason went from England to Norway to spread the Gospel, but it seemed the Lord did not like Olaf’s way of doing it.
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