Note to Anon (Ólkyrr) 2^II

[All]: This episode is very much out of keeping with what we know about the character of Óláfr kyrri from prose and poetic sources, and the tenor of the st. itself is profoundly sceptical and anti-royal. It is possible that the anecdote derives from echoes of the Dan. tradition about King Óláfr Tryggvason of Norway (r. 995-1000). According to Saxo (2005, I, 10, 11, 6, pp. 648-9), Óláfr, despite his baptism and conversion to Christianity, was beholden to sooth-sayers who helped him divine the future, and Adam of Bremen (ed. Schmeidler 1917, 101) tells us that Óláfr relied on the prognostication of birds, which earned him the nickname Craccabben ‘Crows’ Bones’.

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