How Óláfr Haraldsson Became St Olaf of Norway, and the Power of a Poet’s Advocacy

Russell Poole, The University of Western Ontario

This is the text of a lecture at the Beck Icelandic Symposium, which was held at the University of Victoria in Nov. 2004.

The handout of the lecture is available at: http://web.uvic.ca/~becktrus/assets/text/poole_02.php

The podcast is available at: http://web.uvic.ca/~becktrus/assets/audio/RP-sym-lec-aud.mp3

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