Swords in the mountain
Swords in the Mountain ( Norwegian : Sverd i Fjell ) is a memorial in the Norwegian city of Stavanger . It commemorates the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872, as a result of which Harald Fairhair became Norway's first king, and is a symbol of the national unification of Norway that followed.
The monument is located on the east side of the bay Møllebukta of Hafrsfjords in the battle to have taken place. It is west of Stavanger. Madlaveien Street runs east of the monument .
Swords in the mountain was created by Fritz Røed . It consists of three large swords seemingly stuck in a rocky hill. The three swords with their three crowns symbolize the three main regions of Norway, the north, the south-east and the south-west. In addition to the memory of the battle, however, the monument is also a symbol of peace. The Vikings had a custom of sticking swords into the ground in peacetime, to which the design of the monument refers. The monument was inaugurated in 1983 by the Norwegian King Olav V. The monument was financed by the Sparebanken Rogaland .
A tablet carved into the rock near the swords informs in Norwegian about the meaning of the monument, the artist and the unveiling by the king.
literature
- Véronique Mignot-Bari, Stavanger and its surroundings , Trolls of Norway 2008, ISBN 978-82-92868-08-9 , page 56 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Véronique Mignot-Bari, Stavanger and its surroundings , Trolls of Norway 2008, ISBN 978-82-92868-08-9 , page 56
Coordinates: 58 ° 56 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 5 ° 40 ′ 19 ″ E