Selånger

Selånger lies in Medelpad near Sweden's Gulf of Bothnia coast. Its former harbour once reached inland toward the medieval church, but land uplift gradually changed the waterway and moved the shoreline away.

Tradition holds that the Norwegian king Olav Haraldsson landed here in 1030 before his final campaign in Norway. Selånger later became associated with the pilgrimage route to his shrine at Nidaros. A royal estate at nearby Näs appears in the early fourteenth-century law of Hälsingland; the harbour and church helped make the district a meeting point beyond its farming settlements.