Death
Shortly after Olav's return to Bergen German Hanseatic merchants attacked him at Munkeliv Abbey. In the attack which destroyed the abbey Olav was killed, together with the Biship of Bergen and about 60 other Norwegians. Olav's son was one of those who died with him.
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““Promise me solemnly,” I said to her as she lay on what I believed to be her death bed, “if you find in the world beyond the grave that you can communicate with me—that there is some way in which you can make me aware of your continued existence—promise me solemnly that you will never, never avail yourself of it.” She recovered and never, never forgave me.”
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A little soul for a little bears up this corpse which is man.
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