Seim is a village in
Alver municipality 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, whe ...
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 is located at the innermost part of the
Lurefjorden, about north of the village of
Knarvik
Knarvik (or Knarrviki) is the administrative centre of the municipality of Alver in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland, about straight north of Bergen at the confluence of four fjords: Osterfjorden (heading east), ...
and about southeast of the island of
Lygra
Luro or Lygra is an island in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island sits in the Lurefjorden which cuts into the Lindås peninsula. There is one road on the island that continues over a short bridge onto the mainland. The b ...
. The village is home to
Seim Church
Seim Church ( no, Seim kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Seim. It is one of the four churches for the Knarvik parish which is part of the Nordhordl ...
(''Seim kyrkje'') which was built in 1878, and a primary school. The village has a population (2016) of 417 which gives the village a
population density
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of .
History
Harald Fairhair
Harald Fairhair no, Harald hårfagreModern Icelandic: ( – ) was a Norwegian king. According to traditions current in Norway and Iceland in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, he reigned from 872 to 930 and was the first King of N ...
had his royal estates in and around the village of Seim. According to tradition, his son King
Håkon the Good
Haakon Haraldsson (c. 920–961), also Haakon the Good (Old Norse: ''Hákon góði'', Norwegian: ''Håkon den gode'') and Haakon Adalsteinfostre (Old Norse: ''Hákon Aðalsteinsfóstri'', Norwegian: ''Håkon Adalsteinsfostre''), was the king of ...
is buried at Håkonhaugen in Seim (''Håkonshaugen på Seim''). Since 1997, Seim has been a sight of the Håkonarspelet summer festivals which includes performances of the historical drama ''Kongen med Gullhjelmen''. Written by
Johannes Heggland
Johannes Heggland (29 June 1919 – 24 January 2008) was a Norwegian novelist, short story and children's literature writer, playwright, and elected official with the Centre Party. He is most commonly associated with two of his historic pl ...
, this series of historic plays centers on the reign of King Håkon the Good which ended with the
Battle of Fitjar
The Battle of Fitjar (''Slaget ved Fitjar på Stord'') took place in 961 in Fitjar at Stord in the county of Hordaland, Norway.
Battle and aftermath
The Battle of Fitjar at Stord was the last battle in a war between the sons of Eric Bloodaxe and ...
.
The village of Seim and the surrounding areas going out about around the village in all directions is the area of the old parish of Seim. This area historically belonged to the
prestegjeld
A ''prestegjeld'' was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway (''Den Norske Kirke'') roughly equivalent to a parish. This traditional designation was in use for centuries to divide the kingdom into ecclesiastical areas that ...
of
Hosanger
Hosanger is a former municipality in the old Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality was located in what is now parts of Alver Municipality and Osterøy Municipality in Ve ...
. Seim was an
exclave
An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...
of Hosanger, since the rest of Hosanger was located further to the south and east and the prestegjeld of
Alver separated the two. In 1885, Seim was transferred to the new municipality of
Alversund
Alversund is a village in Alver municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the mainland of the Lindås peninsula, along the shore of the Alverstraumen strait. The village sits between the villages of Alverstraumen (acr ...
. In 1964, Alversund was merged with parts of several other municipalities to form a new, larger municipality of Lindås.
Then in 2020, the area was incorporated into the new
Alver Municipality
Alver is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordhordland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Knarvik. Other villages include Alversund, Alver, Isdalstø, Lind� ...
.
References
External links
Håkonarspelet – Håkonarvarde på Seim i Lindås
Villages in Vestland
Alver (municipality)
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