The Battle of Orkdal was, according to Heimskringla, the first attempt at resistance against Harald Fairhair's conquests in Trøndelag. Heimskringla said Harald was massacring and burning his way through Trøndelag, without any opposition, until he came down to Orkdal. Here, King Gryting gathered a large group of men to make a stand against the invading forces. Harald was victorious and Gryting was taken prisoner while a large part of his army were killed. After this, Gryting and the whole of Orkdal subjected themselves to King Harald.
The BattleofOrkdal was, according to Heimskringla, the first attempt at resistance against Harald Fairhair's conquests in Trøndelag. Heimskringla said...
victory at the Battleof Hafrsfjord near Stavanger, Harald found himself king over the whole country. According to Sverre Bagge, unification of Norway was...
2018-03-22. Jones, Gwyn (2001). A History of the Vikings. Oxford University Press. p. 403. ISBN 9780192801340. Battleof Lyrskov Hede. Erik Opsahl. "Knut Alvsson"...
starts in the ancient part of Oslo and heads north, along Lake Mjosa, up the Gudbrandsdal Valley, over Dovrefjell and down the Orkdal Valley, ending at Nidaros...
Sør-Innherad prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The most famous battle in Norwegian history, the Battleof Stiklestad, took place at Stiklestad in...
Arnfinn Nesset: manager of an Orkdal geriatric nursing home who poisoned twenty-two residents with suxamethonium chloride over a period of years before being...
(Governor) ofOrkdal under the kings Håkon IV of Norway and Magnus VI of Norway. His nickname Crouchdance is probably derived from the name of a Norwegian...
Svorksjøen lies on the western border with Orkdal and Meldal. The lakes Benna and Ånøya lie in the central part of the municipality, and the lake Samsjøen...
hailed as the king here, as was his son, Haakon I, called 'the Good.' The battleof Kalvskinnet took place in Trondheim in 1179: King Sverre Sigurdsson and...
of Trondheim, Leinstrand, Strinda, Byneset, Orkdal, Orkanger, Orkland, Buvik, Børsa, Skaun, Geitastrand, Klæbu, Tiller, Malvik; the entire county of Nord-Trøndelag...
of parliamentarism, and parliament could dismiss a member of cabinet through a majority vote.[dubious – discuss] After the constitutional battleof 1884...
King Sverre Sigurdsson fought his last sea battle on 8 June 1198. There is a clover/trefoil design at the end of the silver part which represents life and...
King Sverre Sigurdsson fought his last sea battle on 8 June 1198. There is a clover/trefoil design at the end of the silver part which represents life and...
centennial of the 1905 dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. The goal of the county millennium sites is to contribute to taking care of edifices...
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