Græsli is a village in

Tydal Municipality Tydal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Neadalen/ Tydalen valley. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ås. Other villages include Østby, Græsli, Aungrenda, and Stugudalen. There ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

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. The village is located along the

Nea River , , or is an long river in Norway and Sweden. The long river runs through Berg Municipality and Åre Municipality in Jämtland county (in Sweden) and then Tydal Municipality and Selbu Municipality in Trøndelag county (in Norway). The river ...

, about west of the municipal center of Ås and about west of the village of

Aungrenda Aungrenda or Aunet is a village in Tydal Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Nea River, about west of the municipal center of Ås. The village is the location of Tydal Church Tydal Church () is a par ...

History

Historically, the spelling of the name was ''Gressli''. In 1878, 2,253 coins were found on the Gressli farm during

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on a spot where there had once been a heap of rocks. The Gressli discovery is our most important source of knowledge about

Olav Kyrre Olaf III or Olaf Haraldsson (Old Norse: ''Óláfr Haraldsson'', Norwegian: ''Olav Haraldsson''; – 22 September 1093), known as Olaf the Peaceful (Old Norse: ''Óláfr kyrri'', Norwegian: ''Olav Kyrre''), was King of Norway from 1067 until hi ...

's extensive

minting Minting is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated south from the A158 road The A158 road is a major route that heads from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lincoln in the west to Ske ...

in Norway from 1067 until 1093. In 1881, a meticulous record of the find was published by L. B. Stenersen, the director of the Coin Cabinet. It has since been studied by a series of scholars.

References

Villages in Trøndelag Tydal {{Trøndelag-geo-stub