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Battle of Svolde

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Sweden

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Svolde (1000), part of the Scandinavian National Wars. Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, Prince Erik Jarl of Norway, Olaf Skutkonung of Sweden defeated Olaf I of Norway.

Belligerents4

Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark
Prince Erik Jarl of Norway
Olaf Skutkonung of Sweden
Olaf I of Norway

Conflict graph

PART OFScandinavian wars of the late Viking Age

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Svolde (1000). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-svolde · Sources & methodology