- Vingulmark
Vingulmark is the old name for the area which today makes up the counties of
Østfold , western parts ofAkershus (excludingRomerike ), and eastern parts ofBuskerud (Hurum andRøyken municipalities), and includes the site of Norway's capital,Oslo . According to medievalkings' sagas , it was aViking Age petty kingdom .Archaeologists have made finds of richly endowed burials in the area around the estuary of the riverGlomma , atOnsøy ,Rolvsøy and Tune, where the remains of a ship, theTune ship , was found. This indicates that there was an important center of power in this area. [Bergljot Solberg, "Jernalderen i Norge", (Oslo,2000), p. 279]There are indications that at least the southern part of this area was under Danish rule in the late 9th century. In the account of Ottar, which was written down at the court of the English king
Alfred the Great , Ottar says that when he sailed south fromSkiringssal , he had Denmark on the port side for three days. This would include parts of Vingulmark.Snorri Sturluson relates in "Heimskringla " that it was conquered from the Swedish kingErik Emundsson by kingHarald Fairhair when he united Norway.The sagas name several more or less legendary kings as rulers of Vingulmark:
*Gudrød the Hunter , half of Vingulmark
* Alfgeir (Old Norse: "Álfgeir")
*Gandalf Alfgeirsson
*Halfdan the Black
* Olaf Haraldsson
*Tryggve Olafsson
*Harald Gudrødsson Grenske ,976 -987 During the Middle Ages, Vingulmark was an administrative unit limited to
Oslo ,Bærum andAsker ."See also:"
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