Sentences with phrase «king olaf»
Efforts after the war were finally successful, resulting in the Norwegian Forest Cat being not only welcomed into the show ring in Europe, but also designated the official cat of Norway by the late King Olaf.
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King Olaf of Norway declared the Skogkatt the official Norwegian cat and in 1975 Norsk Skogkattring, the first Norwegian Forest Cat Breed Club was established to preserve and promote the breed.
In the years that followed, he heard play's voice of Joy when he smelled a flowering currant bush, when he discovered the autumn of Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin, when he read Longfellow's Saga of King Olaf, and again when he later became involved in Wagnerian Romanticism.
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E.g., Olaf Tryggvason who was King of Norway from 995 to 1000 A.D. routinely used force to compel conversions to Christianity, including executions and torture of those who refused.
In honor of his birthday, His Majesty King Willem Alexander, commissioned an official portrait from Flatland's celebrated artist, Erwin Olaf.
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