by Markus Dolinsky
When Norway’s Christian king, Óláfr Haraldsson, received a tip-off at Easter 1021 that his vassal Ǫlvir was presiding over a pagan feast of sacrifice, he dispatched his troops to summarily slay him and his…
About Markus
Markus Dolinsky is a historian and Research Associate at the Chair of Medieval History, University of Erfurt, a member of the Research Unit on Voluntariness, and Co-Investigator in the subproject on medieval martyrdom. His research interests include the history of the English and Scandinavian Middle Ages, intercultural exchange, and the history of ethnography, gender, and religion.
