[Regia-NA] Re: Viking naval warfare

[Chris Karlgaard]

If memory serves, wasn't the battle of Havrsfjord (~880) also supposed
to have been at sea? This one is probably also recorded in the
Heimskringla.

Chris

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Brian Lathrop wrote:

> Greetings,
> The History of Olav Trygvason in Snorre Sturlason's Heimskringla describes the
> battle of svold. Also King Harald's Saga describes the Battle of Nissa, a naval
> battle that accured at the mouth of the River Nissa in August 1062 (King
> Harald's Saga, Penguin Classics, 1966, ISBN 0-14-044183-2)
>
>  :^] Thorkel
>