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On a hill in the woods just outside of Karlstad lies Dye Domarring. We are now in the province of Värmland, Sweden and the wood were the monument is located used to be a training area for the military regiment I2. So the wood is often called I2 skogen among locals. This hill seems to
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This summer i visited the UNESCO world heritage site of Hjemmeluft in Alta, Nothern Norway. The wider area of Alta made it on the list in 1985 and the rock carvings or petroglyphs here was by then fairly newly discovered. The first ones were discovered in 1973. There are a total of around 6000 different
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Sometimes you find places you didn’t know that you were looking for, and for me Mortensnes was just such a place. I was traveling in my van along a small road in spectacular landscape on the Varangerhalvøya when I saw a sign indicating a site of cultural heritage. So I decided to stop to check
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Located not far from the small seaside village of Torekov on the Bjäre peninsula, just a stones throw from the sea lies Dagshög. It is the largest grave mound in the Swedish province of Skåne. The mound is 42 meters in diameter and five meters high. The mound got its name from a local legend
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This rock face near the Swedish village of Glösa, in the province of Jämtland don’t look very special at a first glance. But it really is, especially if you are able to look closer at the carvings on the rock. This site was probably a sacred place to a group of hunters and gatherers around
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Järsbergsstenen (the Järsberg stone) are a rune stone located just outside of the small Swedish town of Kristinehamn. It’s one of only four known rune stones in the province of Värmland. The province has relatively few rune stones compared to some other Swedish provinces. But this stone is one of the more interesting ones in
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