Second battle of Solskjel

Second battle of Solskjell
Part of unification of Norway
Dateca. 870
LocationSolskjell, Nordmøre
Result Vestfold victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Vestfold Kingdom of Sunnmøre
Kingdom of Firda
Commanders and leaders
Harald Fairhair Arnvid †
Audbjorn †
Gerhard Munthe: Illustration for Harald Hårfagres saga. 1899-edition

The Second Battle of Solskjell was an engagement in Harald Fairhair's conquest of Norway.

After the First Battle of Solskjell, Solve Klove, son of King 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 Fjordane and convinced him to join forces against Harald. The force sailed north to meet Harald by Solskjell. Here both kings Arnvid and Audbjorn fell, but Solve again escaped. Heimskringla tells that Harald's men, Asgaut and Asbjorn as well as Grjotgard and Herlaug, the sons of earl Håkon Grjotgardsson, were all killed in battle. Solve subsequently resumed his pirate raids and caused much trouble to Harald in several years after. King Harald took possession of Sunnmøre and made Ragnvald Eysteinsson the Mørejarl.[2]


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References

  1. ↑ Saga om Solskjel (Solskjel.no)
  2. ↑ Ragnvald Øysteinson Mørejarl (Store norske leksikon)

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