期刊名称：Futhark : International Journal of Runic Studies
电子版ISSN：1892-0950
出版年度：2010
期号：1
页码：177-187
出版社：University of Oslo & Uppsala University
摘要：In 1997 the city of Trondheim celebrated — with great pomp and circumstance — its millennium. The choice of this particular year reflects a 200-year-old tradition of jubilees in Trondheim, the first of which took place in 1797 when eight hundred years of urban history was felt to call for public celebration. The historical sources used to establish the date of founding of the town that was later to become the holy city of St. Olaf were first and foremost the various sagas about Óláfr Tryggvason (Hagland 2001, 96 f.). Here is not the place to go into detail about the early history of Nidaros or its historiography. Suffice to say that the date decided on in 1797 has not been seriously challenged since, neither by historians nor archaeologists. That is to say, there is at present a reasonable consensus about the early phases of the medieval city: its beginnings go back to the last decade of the tenth century or so — which gives us a perspective of about a thousand years — an unusually long period for a process of urbanisation in these northern latitudes
