The St. Olav's Medal and the St. Olav's Medal With Oak Branch were instituted by King Haakon VII of Norway on 17 March 1939. They are awarded in recognition of "outstanding services rendered in connection with the spreading of information about Norway abroad and for strengthening the bonds between expatriate Norwegians and their home country". The medals are in silver, surmounted by the Royal Crown. On the obverse is the portrait of the reigning King with his name and motto. On the reverse, St. Olav's cross. Above the medal is the monogram of the reigning King. It is worn on the left side of the breast with the ribbon of the Order of St. Olav. The medal ranks 9th in the order of precedence of Norwegian medals. When awarded for services rendered in wartime, the medal carries an oak branch and ranks 6th in the order of precedence of Norwegian medals.

Recipients of the medal

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* 1939 Henry Poynter Burnett, Commander (late Rear Admiral), USN * 1939 Brenda Ueland, author and teacher, Minneapolis, Minnesota * c1942 Captain Andrew Henry, O.B.E. ref. Shetland Family History www.bayanne.info/Shetland Person I.D. I53644 * 1944 Egil Melsom, Assistant Engineer on the M/T Gallia * 1951 Rev. Bent Emil Carlsen, known as "Pastor", of Milton, Massachusetts; in recognition of his work among Norwegians in America. * 1954

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

, Australian composer and pianist * 1964 Marianne Schigutt, Austrian diplomat * 1976 Helen Svensson Fletre, Swedish born Norwegian-American journalist; In 1976, King Olav bestowed the St. Olav's medal on her - for her sesquicentennial work and for her many years of service to Norway. Wife of Norwegian Artist

Lars Fletre Lars Fletre (June 22, 1904 – September 9, 1977) was a prominent Norwegian-American designer and sculptor. Biography Lars Olavson Fletre was born in Vossestrand, Voss, Hordaland, Norway. He was the youngest of seven children born to Ola Odd ...

* 1993 Margaret Miller, genealogist, Apple Valley, Minnesota * 1994

Kristin Brudevoll Kristin Brudevoll (born 4 January 1943) is a Norwegian literary scholar and organizational leader. She was the director of the Norla (Norwegian Literature Abroad). Early life On 4 January 1943, Brudevoll was born in Lillehammer, Norway. In 1 ...

, former Director of Norla. * 1995

Lyuba Gorlina Lyubov "Lyuba" Gorlina (1926 – 2013) was a Russian translator. She worked as a translator from Swedish and Norwegian to Russian since the 1950s. Her husband Yuri Vronskiy was a children's writer and translator. In the 1980s she held Tarjei ...

, Russian translator * 2002 Andrea Een, Hardanger fiddler, Northfield, Minnesota * 2005

Stan Boreson Stan Boreson (May 5, 1925 – January 27, 2017), the "King of Scandinavian Humor," was a Norwegian-American comedian, accordionist and singer from Everett, Washington. Boreson was an early local TV star in the Seattle area, with a career that includ ...

, entertainer,

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* 2008 Trygve Gunnar Morkemo *2010 Dean Madden for his contributions to the Vesterheim Museum * 2014 Ewart Parkinson, OBE, town planner,

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, for his role in saving and rebuilding the Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay * 2017 Glo Wollen, Petersburg, Alaska * 2022

Nina Malterud Nina Malterud (born 1951) is a Norwegian ceramist. A graduate of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, since 1975 she has created a variety of practical and artistic artefacts, both large and small, working mainly with blue clay. ...

, Norwegian ceramist

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External links

Official Norwegian royal house web page
* http://medals.org.uk/norway/norway007.htm Orders, decorations, and medals of Norway

Recipients of the medal

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