The Hunt for Olav den Hellige

In September 2010, the religious historian Øystein Morten finds remains that the Catholic Church claims belong to St. Olav. Scientific experts at the University of Oslo, in Uppsala and in the United States are assigned to the case.

The hunt for St. Olav is underway.

X-ray photography, carbon dating and DNA structures, together with new source studies, show a completely different man than the one Snorri depicted.

This is the story of a different Olav than the one we know. A man who appears as a mercenary in England in the early 1000s.

At the same time, this book is about faith and hope in the Middle Ages, about a powerful church, exchanged corpses and about secrets that have been hidden in the cathedra in Nidaros.