By another account, Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury baptized him near Andover, Hampshire, England in 994.Stenton Anglo-Saxon England, p. 378 However, Henrietta Leyser, the author of Ælfheah's entry in the Oxford National Dictionary of Biography, states that Olaf was already baptized and that the 994 event at Andover was a confirmation of his faith, part of a Danegeld treaty in which he agreed to no longer raid in England.
By another account, Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury baptized him near Andover, Hampshire, England in 994.Stenton Anglo-Saxon England, p. 378 However, Henrietta Leyser, the? author of Ælfheah's entry in the Oxford National Dictionary of Biography, states that Olaf was already baptized and that the 994 event at Andover was a confirmation of hi!s faith, part of a Danegeld treaty in which he agreed to no longer raid in England.