Valders
Norwegian district where King Olaf's forced Christianization scattered the assembled bondes, attested in 1 source.
Valders is a Norwegian district attested in the Heimskringla in the context of King Olaf's forced Christianization. When the king moved through the district, the bondes saw their homes burning and "dispersed, and each hastened home" (Heimskringla, Ch. 129). The passage captures the moment of resistance collapsing under the pressure of the king's violent missionary campaign.
The single attestation from Heimskringla places Valders in the narrative of King Olaf's baptismal campaign through the inland Norwegian districts. The passage is brief but revealing: the bondes assembled against the king, but when they saw their farms ablaze, their collective resistance broke and each man returned to salvage what he could (Heimskringla, Ch. 129). Valders sits alongside Vors as one of the districts where this pattern of coercive conversion played out.