 Óláfr 's time in the Isles is confirmed by several Icelandic sources which recount how , in 1202 , Guðmundr <unk> attempted to sail from Iceland to Norway to become consecrated as the Bishop of <unk> . These saga accounts relate how the Icelanders encountered a severe storm and were blown far off course before being forced to make landfall in the Hebrides . The island they landed upon was almost certainly Sanday , a tiny tidal island linked to its larger neighbour Canna , the westernmost of the Small Isles . According to the saga the Icelanders were pressured numerous times to pay a landing @-@ tax to a king named Óláfr . The king encountered by the Icelanders is considered to have been Óláfr , although at this point in history the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles is not known to have encompassed the Small Isles . One possibility is that Óláfr , like the Icelanders , may have been temporarily stranded on the tidal island , and that he may have taken advantage of the storm @-@ stricken churchmen to offset the poverty that is assigned to him by the chronicle . 
