Burial mounds of Dale Gudbrands gard
The burial mounds of Dale Gudbrands gard are located near Kongsvegen, north of Hundorp in Gudbrandsdalen in Sør-Fron , near Lillehammer in Fylke Innlandet in Norway .
The courtyard lies in the middle of a large hill area from the Iron Age . In 1755 Gerhard Schøning describes five large burial mounds , one of which was removed. The four preserved, with diameters between 23.0 and 32.0 meters, are the largest in Gudbrandsdalen. Besides these hills there is a square stone and the remains of a round stone setting . Two medium-sized hills on the neighboring Hjetlund farm are also counted among the large hills of Hundorp.
The Heimskringla of Snorri Sturluson , written around 1230, describes in chapters 112-114 the separate saga of St. Olaf and the meeting between Olav the Saint (995-1030 AD) and Herse Dale-Gudbrand on his farm in 1021. Olav Haraldsson was one of the first Norwegian iconoclasts to have Kolbein the Strong of Fjordane ( Norwegian Kolbein den sterke ) smash the image of Thor with a club. That was the beginning of Christianity in Gudbrandsdalen and Dale-Gudbrand later had a church built on his farm. Kolbein's club is depicted on the Sør-Fron municipal coat of arms.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herse (from Nordic hersir, possibly derived from a lord of the "flock") was an old Norwegian upper title that was used until around 1050.
Web links
- Description Norway. and picture
- Om oppstarten av kultursenteret information allgronn.org (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 61 ° 32 '55.7 " N , 9 ° 57' 58.3" E