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Festivals & Events
Every year during the week leading up to St Olav's Day (29 July) Stiklestad hosts the St
Olav Festival with a medieval market, lots of wannabe Vikings in costume and a host of
other activities. The high point of the festival is an outdoor pageant (held over the last five
days) dramatising the conflicts between the king and local farmers and chieftains. Some of
Norway's top actors and actresses traditionally take the major roles while locals play minor
parts and swell the crowd scenes.
Sleeping & Eating
Rica Stiklestad Hotel HOTEL
( 74 04 42 00; www.rica.no ; r Nkr800-1250; )
Inside the Stiklestad National Cultural Centre, this fine addition to the Rica chain has
rooms that combine a contemporary look (think dark tones and parquetry floors) with
symbolism from the Stiklestad story. There's also a restaurant in the complex.
Getting There & Away
The site of Stiklestad lies 5km east of the E6 on Rv757.
Steinkjer
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Medieval sagas speak of Steinkjer as a major trading centre and indeed it continues to be a
crossroads of the two major routes to the north.
There's little here to hold your attention, aside from the town's main attraction, its Egge
Museum ( www.eggemuseum.no ; Fylkesmannsgården; adult/child Nkr60/free; 10am-4pm mid-
Jun-mid-Aug) , an open-air farm complex 2.5km north of town. On the same hilltop site are
several Viking burial mounds and stone circles.
Sleeping & Eating
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