Second battle of Solskjel
| Second battle of Solskjell | |||||||
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| Part of unification of Norway | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of Vestfold |
Kingdom of Sunnmøre Kingdom of Firda | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Harald Fairhair |
Audbjorn † | ||||||
The second battle of Solskjell was an engagement in Harald Fairhair's conquest of Norway.
After the
First Battle of Solskjel, Solve Klove, son of Huntiof, King of Nordmøre, set himself up as a pirate and spent that winter raiding and plundering King Harald's men and possessions on the Møre coast. King Harald himself had left to spend the winter in Trondheim. Solve had also spent time at the court of King Arnvid of Sunnmøre, and they had gathered together a large group of people who had been dispossessed by Harald's conquest.[1]
The following summer Harald again gathered an army and sailed south. On hearing news of Harald's intentions' Solve traveled to King Audbjorn in
Jarls of Møre.[2]
See also
References
Primary source
- ISBN 0-292-73061-6
Other sources
- Finlay, Alison (editor and translator) Fagrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway (Brill Academic. 2004) ISBN 90-04-13172-8
- Hermannsson, Halldór (2009) Bibliography of the sagas of the kings of Norway (BiblioBazaar) ISBN 978-1113624611
- Jones, Gwyn (1984) A History of the Vikings (Oxford University Press. 2nd ed) ISBN 0-19-285139-X.
Related reading
(In Norwegian)
- ISBN 978-8200129387