Viking Saint

A biography of the Viking king who sought to Christianize Norway in the Middle Ages—"A seminal and scholarly study that reads with all the inherent narrative storytelling flair of an historical novel" (Midwest Book Review).The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway''s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle...