Archaeologists find the church and altar of Viking king Olav Haraldsson

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Archaeologists in Norway find the church where the Viking king Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint. The find is sensational because it confirms Norse saga accounts of important events that occurred at the dawn of Christianity in Norway.


Archaeologists in Trondheim, Norway have uncovered the foundations of a wooden stave church in which the body of the Viking king Olaf Haraldsson, who later became Norway's patron saint, may have been enshrined immediately after he was declared a saint.

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