When King Olaf Trygvason had been two years king of Norway ( 997), there was a Saxon priest in his house who was called Thangbrand (pictured here), a passionate, ungovernable man, and a great man-slayer; but he was a good scholar, and a clever man. The king would not have him in his house upon account of his misdeeds; but gave him the errand to go to Iceland, and bring that land to the Christian faith.

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