Alrekstad

Alrekstad (Norrois: Álreksstaðir) was important firm royal during the Early middle ages with Bergen, in Norway. It was located at the foot of Ulriken. Harald Ier resided at it at the 20th century, and in 961 after the battle of Fitjar Håkon Ier of Norway went there when it succumbed its wounds to Håkonshella, hardly to a few kilometers. But it is known that a kinglet named Alfred lived already there at the 4th century.

The Lungegårdsvann Blind was named at the time Ålrekstadvågen, Svartediket; Ålrekstadvannet and Puddefjord, Skinhosa. Årstadgeilen, the first street of Bergen, went from Alrekstad to Alrekstadvågen

During the reign of Eystein Magnusson (1103-1123), the royal residence was transferred to the current site from Bergenhus, there or will be built Håkonshallen one century later.

In its will, in 1277, Magnus VI of Norway bequeaths the field of Alrekstad to the monastery of Nonneseter (Nonnesæter kloster).

The etymology of the name Alrekstad would come from the word alrekr or Ulriken. Today, the name with advanced in Årstad, the name of Bydel er of Bergen. Alrekstad, now called Årstadvollen, does not form paradoxically part of this bydel. The buildings were located at the current site of the school of Haukeland, and a residence hall near names Alrek studenthjem.

Approximate translation of the plate:

In the Norwegian olden days, the principal farm of Årstad, from now on school of Årstad, bore the name of Alrekstaðir. Alrekstad was one of the royal farms along the south-western coast of Norway or Harald to Beautiful Hair and its continuation remained in years 900, before the blossoming of the cities in the country. After the Battle of Fitjar to Stord towards 960, Håkon the Good was on the way of Alrekstad when it mourrut of its wounds with Håkonhellen. As a throne, the farm was the origin the urban development of Bergen, and it is supposed that the farm had a port with Vågen before the creation of the city. It is as probable as out of wooden of the time of Håkon the Good existed a church. Later, in 1395, one speaks about a stone church which could have been built in the years 1100. This congregation in the parish of Årstad was dissolved in the years 1600.
Plate posed by the congregation of Årstad and the school of Årstad. September 10th, 2000.