Norway and Iceland were the countries to longest resist the Church. But eventually the people of Norway were forcibly converted, first by Olaf Tryggvason and then by that Olaf who was later titled Saint for his efforts at eradicating heathenism. They waged an unceasing war against the heathen faith, destroying idols, burning temples, defiling holy places, and killing those who resisted them. "St." Olaf was particularly enthusiastic in his pursuit of a Christian Norway. While he could be good and even fair-minded to those who obeyed him, with heathens he was, even by viking standards, ruthless. He tortured, maimed, and blinded them, drove and burned them from their homes. He doused them with pitch and lit them on fire. He was such a tyrant and a bloody-minded zealot that he became known to those he sought to eradicate as "Olaf the Lawbreaker". Iceland was colonized in great part by those who sought to escape these persecutions.