Fyrisån

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Fyrisån
Fyrisån in Uppsala at the mill that once belonged to the university

Fyrisån in Uppsala at the mill that once belonged to the university

Data
location Uppsala län ( Sweden )
River system Norrström
Drain over Norrström  → Baltic Sea
origin Lake Dannemorasjön (municipality of Östhammar )
60 ° 9 ′ 44 ″  N , 17 ° 49 ′ 5 ″  E
muzzle in the Mälaren coordinates: 59 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E 59 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E
Mouth height 0.7  m

length 80 km
Catchment area 1990 km²
Drain MQ
 14 m³ / s
Big cities Uppsala

Fyrisån is a river in Sweden and the longest river in the historic Uppland province . It has a total length of 80 kilometers and flows eight kilometers south of Uppsala , through which it also flows, into Lake Mälaren .

The Fyris lowlands near the river at Old Uppsala was the location of a Viking Age battle that around the year 986 between the contingents of the Swedish king Erik Segersäll and sunken into the country Jomswikingern under the leadership Styrbjörns and of Icelandic Björn Asbrandsson in league took place with a Danish contingent. The invaders were crushed by the Swedes. Styrbjörn, who was also the Swedish heir to the throne, fell, Asbrandsson managed to escape with a few warriors to a nearby forest and later back across the sea to the Pomeranian base Gau Jom . The "Battle of Fyrisvallarna" is also attested on Danish and Swedish rune stones , for example by Hällestad and Sjörup in Skåne and Högby in Östergötland . The statements on the rune stones roughly match the content of the later Icelandic sagas .

In Uppsala on April 30th ( Swedish Sista april or Valborgsmässoafton , Valborg for short ) students from Uppsala University will hold a race with self-made boats ( forsränningen ) on the river .

literature

  • Johannes Brøndsted : The great time of the Vikings . Translated from the Danish by Karl Kersten. Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz Verlag 1964.
  • Lutz Mohr : Dragon ships in the Pomeranian Bay. The Jomswikinger, their Jomsburg and the Gau Jom . (edition Rostock maritime). Edited by Robert Rosentreter . Rostock: Ingo Koch Verlag 2013, chap .: Björn Asbrandsson - an Icelandic Yom Viking in Pomerania, Sweden and the New World , pp. 156–163, ISBN 978-3-86436-069-5

Web links

Commons : Fyrisån  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. L. Mohr 2013, p. 156ff