What the records say
- When
- 2 Jul 1244
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 65.83° N, 20.83° W
- Description
- 1244 battle
Battle of the Gulf
Medieval Icelandic naval battle in 1244
The Battle of the Gulf was a naval battle on 25 June 1244 in Iceland's Húnaflói Bay, during the Age of the Sturlungs civil war. The conflicting parties were the followers of Þórður kakali Sighvatsson, a member of the Sturlungar family, and those of Kolbeinn ungi Arnórsson. Þórður's men were from the Westfjords of Iceland, while Kolbeinn's were northerners. The primary weapons were rocks hurled between boats.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Flóabardagi, en français la « bataille du Golfe », bataille navale entre deux clans islandais pendant la guerre civile de l'âge des Sturlungar”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page