Battle of Stiklestad

The Battle of Stiklestad on July 29, 1030 in the small village in the municipality of Verdal Stiklestad ( Nord-Trøndelag, about 90 km north of Trondheim ) finally sealed the full Christianization and the Reichswerdung Norway.

After the death of the last Ladejarls Norway had become leaderless. The from Russia, where he had fled the rebellious Norwegian nobility, returning king Olav Haraldsson moved with a Swedish army to Trøndelag, where the pagan chieftain had collected a (possibly twice as strong ) army of peasants.

Although Olav fell in battle, it ended for the Christian army victorious. Olav was canonized in the sequence and it was possible to obtain the kingship, and thus the unity of the empire in Norway. The significance of the battle was of succeeding generations, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, symbolically exaggerated by the idea of ​​a common Norwegian nation was connected with her.

On the battlefield, a church was built. The National Cultural Centre Stiklestad is annually given to the 29th July, the " spectacle of the Holy Olav ".