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The Battle of Fitjar from Erik Werenskiold pen

Fitjar- the King's farm

19.06.2018 - 16:05

In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most dramatic events in Norway’s history, the Battle of Fitjar. This was the place where Norway’s king, Håkon the Good, suffered his fatal injury in the fight with Eirik’s sons, probably in the year 961.

Lyngholmen

13.03.2018 - 21:20

King Sverre in the snowstorm in the Voss Mountains, 1870.

Sverrestigen

19.06.2018 - 17:48

Rosemåling

Frette

06.03.2019 - 15:48

Model of the king’s estate around 1300

Bergenhus

12.05.2020 - 14:50

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