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 ...

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 Sogndalsfjøra is a village in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. It is located where the river Sogndalselvi runs out in the Sogndalsfjorden, a branch of the large Sognefjorden. The village is located about northwest of the v ...

and about southwest of the village of

Kaupanger Kaupanger is a village situated along the northern shore of the Sognefjorden in the municipality of Sogndal in Vestland county, Norway. It sits along the Norwegian National Road 5, about southeast of the municipal centre of Sogndalsfjøra and ab ...

. 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 The civil war era in Norway ( no, borgerkrigstida or ''borgerkrigstiden'') began in 1130 and ended in 1240. During this time in history of Norway, Norwegian history, some two dozen rival kings and pretenders War of succession, waged wars to clai ...

. 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 .

References

{{authority control Villages in Vestland Sogndal