HE was an Englishman of great learning and virtue; and preached the
faith, first in Germany; afterwards in Sweden, under the pious king Olas
II., who first took the title of king of Sweden; for his predecessors
had only been styled kings of Upsal. The good bishop converted many to
Christ; till in the year 1028, while he was preaching against the idol
Tarstans or Thor, and hewing it down with a hatchet, he was slain by the
pagans. See Adam of Bremen, who wrote his most faithful History of the
Church in the North, in 1080, l. 2 c. 44. Albert Kranxius, l. 4. Metrop.
c. 8. Baron. ad an. 1028, n. 10.
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