Korsvika is a small residential area of in the Lade

Lade, Trondheim

Lade is a community in Trondheim, Norway. It is located on a peninsula north-east of the city centre, north of the community of Lademoen. It was the site of the historic Lade farm.-History:...

 neighborhood of Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Korsvika has several small beach

Beach

A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...

es, and the Ladestien

Ladestien

Ladestien is a broad walking track that strolls along the Trondheimsfjord around the entire Lade Peninsula in the municipality of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The track is about long. The western part of the track starts at Korsvika, about east of the center of Trondheim, and...

 trail runs through the area. In Korsvika there is also a kindergarten named "Korsvika barnehage".

History

At the end of the 10th century, Håkon the Good

Haakon I of Norway

Haakon I , , given the byname the Good, was the third king of Norway and the youngest son of Harald Fairhair and Thora Mosterstang.-Early life:...

 lived in Korsvika, where he was born. He was very special because he was allowed by the Danish king Harald I of Denmark

Harald I of Denmark

Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. He died in 985 or 986 having ruled as King of Denmark from around 958 and King of Norway for a few years probably around 970...

, after they allied. Håkon never converted to Christianity

Christianity

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.

Korsvikaspillet

"Korsvikaspillet" is a play which is performed biennially in Korsvika. The play was originally made because of the 800-year jubilee celebration of the Lade Church

Lade Church

Lade Church is located in the Lade neighborhood in the city of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway, just southeast of Korsvika and east of Ladehammeren. The church is part of the Lade parish in the Nidaros deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros....

 in 1989. In 1995, Idar Lind

Idar Lind

Idar Lind is a Norwegian novelist, crime writer and playwright. He was born on the island of Otterøya in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. He made his literary debut in 1983 with Stengte dører. He was awarded the Riverton Prize in 1989 for the crime novel 13 takters blues.-References:...

 wrote a new manuscript to the play. The plot of the play is the life of earl Håkon Sigurdsson. The story is told by a scald

Scald

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named Einar Skåleglam. The play is based on the actual history of the area.