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3-4 km. north of Haugesund town center, we find Haraldshaugen.
Today we will take a closer look at this magnificent monument, erected
in 1872 to commemorate the battle of Hafrsfjord in 872. In that battle
King Harald Fairhair defeated a number of minor chieftains, and consolidated
Norway into one kingdom, chosing Avaldsnes for his kings estate. The monument
is situated at the place describes by the nordic cronicler, Snorre Sturlason
after his journey to this area in app. 1220. He describes a burial place
and a church on Gard, north of Haugesund. Remains of the church was still
present when building the monument app. 1870. The remains are no covered
by the monument.
Monumentet består av en 17 meter høy granittobelisk og 29 Fylkesstener, hentet fra de gammelnorske fylkene som Harald Hårfargre samlet til et rike. Steinene er merket med det fylke de er hentet fra. The monument consists of a 17 meter high granite obelisk, surroundet by 29 smaller county stones from each of the old norwegians counties at Harald Hairfairs time. The stones are marked by the old name of their counties. Nederst på den 17 meter høye obelisken finner
vi 4 kopperrelieffer, et på hver side:
Below the slope around the obelisk, we find a marked grave, with a stone described by Snorre on top of it. When searcing for the stone, it was found on a farm close to this place. This grave is ment to be Harald Hairfairs burial place, but experts nowadays does not agree in that! Fra haugen har vi fin utsikt over
Gardsvik og havet utenfor.
Like syd øst for monumentet
ligger Korshaugen, et gammelt gudstjenestested som altså ligger
kloss opptil der hvor den første kjente kirke i vårt distrikt
var plassert.
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