the ledger of connections
The Connections of Olaf Tryggvason
King of Norway Every person recorded alongside Olaf Tryggvason in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Olaf Tryggvason in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Tryggve Olafsson, Astrid Eiriksdatter
- Spouses
- Geira, Tyra of Denmark, Gudrun Skjeggesdatter
- Children
- Tryggvi the Pretender
- Siblings
- Astrid Tryggvesdatter
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 960 CE to 1000.
Medieval era
Ibn al-Haytham
965 CE – 1038
Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Medieval era
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 CE – June 18, 1037
Persian polymath whose Canon of Medicine taught Europe for 600 years
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Medieval era
Murasaki Shikibu
978 CE – 1014
Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)
Medieval era
Ferdowsi
940 CE – 1020
Persian poet, author of Shahnameh (940–1020)
Medieval era
Leif Erikson
972 CE – 1020
Norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Medieval era
Rabia Balkhi
b. c. 1000
Persian poet, first woman poet of Islamic period
Medieval era
Sei Shonagon
966 CE – 1025
Japanese author and court lady
Medieval era
Ly Thai To
March 8, 974 CE – 1028
Vietnamese emperor
Medieval era
Al-Mutanabbi
920 CE – 965 CE
Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)
Medieval era
Æthelred the Unready
967 CE – April 23, 1016
King of England
Medieval era
Edmund Ironside
993 CE – November 30, 1016
King of the English, Wessex dynasty