Kategori: Ruin
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The chieftains warrior division at Åse
Texten finns på svenska längre ner. Last summer, I traveled to my neighboring country, Norway. I generally find it more difficult to locate ancient monuments in Norway than at home in Sweden, likely due to the algorithms of various search engines favoring the language one most commonly uses, which in my case is Swedish. This…
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Eketorp Borg
English version below the Swedish text. Under årets resa till Öland så stod ett återbesök till fornborgen Eketorp högt på min lista. Jag var där för ca 13 år sedan när jag studerade Hållbar Turismutveckling på Högskolan i Halmstad. Vi besökte borgen då den är ett mycket gott exempel på hur man kan levandegöra kulturarvet.…
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Gamla Skogsby
Gamla Skogsby (old forest village) is located on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, the second largest island in Sweden. The site lies close to the village of Skogsby and 5km from the small town of Färjestaden. Even though this place is easily found on google maps, it was surprisingly hard for me…
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Rönnerum Ancient Village
Rönnerum is located on the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea, halfway between the towns of Borgholm and Färjestaden. You can hike here on a trail that also connects with Odens Flisor from my last post and the well known Iron Age ring fort Ismantorp. I chose however to drive there in my…
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Aranäs Castle Ruins
This was not my first visit to the ruins of Aranäs or Årnäs as it is also called. But this time the weather was particularly bad with cold temperatures, rain and strong gusts of wind. It made the whole experience revisiting this ruin particularly difficult as the location is exposed on a peninsula on the…
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Hökberget Hill-Fort
Today I spent most of the day preparing my camper van for a new season of traveling and exploring. I am specifically preparing for a trip to the island of Öland that is well known for the many interesting ancient sites, especially the many ring forts dating to the Iron Age. When I was finished…
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Mussla Church Ruin
I am by nature a person that dislikes to intrude on people. It’s probably not just me but a national trait among Swedes to keep our distance to each other. That’s probably why I sometimes feel rather uncomfortable when I want to approach an ancient monument that is located very close to someone’s house. A…
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Gudhem Abbey
Gudhem is probably best known for its appearance in the Swedish historical novels The Crusades Trilogy and movie trilogy Arn The Knight’s Templar based on these books. The love interest of the main character Arn, Cecilia Algotsdotter also known as Cicilia Rosa spends 20 years in this abbey as punishment for having relations outside of…
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