The Olav Tryggvason monument is a monument to Olav Tryggvason, designed by the sculptor Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879-1965) and erected on the Town Square in Trondheim in 1921. This eighteen-metre-high memorial consists of a statue of Olav Tryggvason, the town‘s founder and the King of Norway (995-1000 A.D.), placed atop a pillar on a plinth.

The king is portrayed with a sword and a globus cruciger (a cross-bearing globe, best known in Northern Europe as ‘the apple of the kingdom‘) in his hands. At the king‘s feet lies the head of God Thor (God of the aboriginal population), which symbolises the king‘s victory over the aboriginal people and their faith.