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    Default Re: Provinces

    NORWAY AREA
    * Hordaland - Bergen (town) (rebels)
    * Hafrsfjord (rebels) - Nord-Jaeren / Stafangr (town) (strong rebels)
    * Vaestfold - Kaupang (position close to Oslo but further down the fiord) (large town) (owned by Norway)
    * Trondelag - Trondheim (town) (rebels)
    * Hologaland (modern Lofoten area and mainland next to it) - Narvik (better city needed) (village) (rebels)
    * (PERHAPS REMOVE THIS ONE:) Northern Norway - Tromso (village) (rebels)
    * Finnmark (rebels) - Kirkenes (situated next to Barents Sea and modern Russian border) (village) (rebels)

    Some corrections from my mind:

    Provinces:

    Hafrsfjord -> Rygjafylke (Was called Rygjafylke in the Viking Age/Early Medieval Age)
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    Hologaland would suit, but Hologaland is "ecclesiastically" (spelling?) seen as all of northern Norway. Your definition of Hologaland/Hålogaland is the modern one.
    Wikipedia: In the early Viking Age, before Harald Fairhair, Hålogaland was a petty kingdom extending between Namdalen in Nord-Trøndelag and Lyngen in Troms.
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    No Norwegians lived in Finnmark (at least not in significant numbers, until later in the Middle Ages). If Finnmark is included (Finnmark btw means Lapland) then I would suggest Vardøhus, although that fortress was built in the late middle ages. (During the witch hunts, 3000 Norwegians lived in Finnmark)

    Here's a map over Norwegian petty kingdoms during the 9th century:



    Settlements:
    Bergen -> Bjørgvin. (Bergen was founded in 1070, and called Bjørgvin)
    Trondheim -> Nidaros (Was called Nidaros in the early middle ages to the 14th-15th century and evident by the Nidaros Cathedral)

    If northern parts of Norway are included, then perhaps Steigen for the Hologaland area.
    Last edited by Krusader; 06-17-2005 at 13:53.
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