Fimreite is a small village in the municipality of
Sogndal
Sogndal is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the traditional district of Sogn. The village of Hermansverk is the administrative center of Sogndal municipality. Other villages i ...
in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The village sits on the south side of the mouth of the
Sogndalsfjorden
Sogndalsfjorden is a fjord in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The long fjord begins at the mouth of the river Arøyelvi, which flows out of the lake Hafslovatnet. It then flows to the southwest before emptying into the large Sog ...
, where it empties into the main
Sognefjorden
The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (, en, Sogn Fjord), nicknamed the King of the Fjords ( no, Fjordenes konge), is the largest and deepest fjord in Norway. Located in Vestland county in Western Norway, it stretches inland from the ocean to the smal ...
. It is located near the end of a peninsula about southwest of the village of
Sogndalsfjøra and about southwest of the village of
Kaupanger. The village of
Nornes lies across the Sogndalsfjorden from Fimreite.
Fimreite was the site of the
Battle of Fimreite
The Battle of Fimreite (Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Slaget ved Fimreite'') was a Naval warfare, naval battle fought on June 15, 1184, between King Magnus V of Norway, Magnus Erlingsson and the Birkebeiner supported Sverre of Norway, Sverre Sig ...
in 1184, a naval battle during the
civil war era in Norway.
One set of the
Sognefjord Span The Sognefjord Spans are the second, third, and fourth longest span (architecture), spans in the world situated east of Leikanger, Hermansverk, Norway and are part of different powerlines. As Sognefjord Span is a deep valley the pylons of these span ...
s crosses the Sognefjorden just west of Fimreite.
Commemoration
In 1984, a memorial stone was unveiled by King
Olav V of Norway
Olav V (; born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was the King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.
Olav was the only child of King Haakon VII of Norway and Maud of Wales. He became heir apparent to the Nor ...
to commemorate the 800-year anniversary of the Battle of Fimreite. The
obelisk
An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by Anc ...
was erected in the nearby village of
Nornes. At that time, the historic play ''Slaget ved Fimreite'' and the composition ''Klokkesong'' (1984) by composer
Arne Nordheim
Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer. Nordheim received numerous awards for his compositions, and from 1982 lived in the Norwegian government's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. He ...
were performed .
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Villages in Vestland
Sogndal