Nordic Spirit Classics
November 10, 2023
7:30 PM Pacific Standard Time

The Nordic Spirit Classics series will continue on Friday, November 10 with an online selection from the 2022 Nordic Spirit Symposium, “From Northern Lights and Winter Nights: A Symposium of Nordic Stories and Culture.” Two speakers from western Norway gave this presentation.

Viking Age Roads to Power: King Harald Fairhair and the Control of Maritime Traffic in Western Norway

Christopher Fredrik Kvæstad, M.A., Archaeologist, Rogaland Fylkeskommune, Norway

Håkon Reiersen, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof., Archaeological Museum, University of Stavanger, Norway

For centuries, trade and traffic that passed through a narrow strait along the southwestern Norway coast, the “North Way,” was controlled by powerful princes and kings. The speakers will discuss the pre-Viking and Viking era of Avaldsnes and Haraldseid in western Norway, and one particularly powerful king, King Harald Fairhair.

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For meeting information, please contact nordicspiritclassics@gmail.com

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The Nordic Spirit Symposium and Nordic Spirit Second Friday Series are programs of the Scandinavian American Cultural & Historical Foundation in Thousand Oaks, California.

The annual Nordic Spirit Symposium is co-sponsored by California Lutheran University, made possible by grants from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and Norway House Foundation in San Francisco.