Wednesday 21 July 2021

bohus fästning

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1WRAqqhDaIFD9vg3_9UnhhjIdLHDaT8UGhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ua36-ik9Cp_VTv-_saE17Q1KJBQj7LBYCrossing again the large island of Orust to travel inland on the outskirts of Göteborg, we came to the convergence of the Göte Älv (the River of the Geats and basis of the Göte Canal) to Kungälv to visit the ruined bastion once a stronghold of Håkon V. Magnusson to protect trade and defend from incursions at the former Norwegian-Swedish border, guarding the region from 1308 until the peace and territorial re-allotment of 1658. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=19JDyj1pm0Md4LumCU-8M3XMDn_s_8e6rhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1k4PjMsZJcp5YLPtBc8hqjv_QR08mubr9https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1VMV2WmHmeXoAehL-PZ1hspvAECPk23j4https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1HLw9N9QGTRbc83CUm55QRxbFGr7Sr3Wmhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1fKnJDOHSUwfRq-xkaYztk18qIMr--0q1 Besieged no less than fourteen times, the fortress was never taken but allowed to fall into disrepair after it lost its strategic importance. The grounds held a variety of activities for those whose attention is not satisfied with history alone. Afterwards we toured the old town centre with its wooden structures. On the way back to the campsite for one last night’s stay, we stopped at an archeological site called Nedre Hoga—a settlement occupied for the past six millennia but with artefacts, a rune stone (locally referred to as Raimund’s Häll) and Thingstatte or Domarringar—a stone circle once believed to be a seat of justice but now believed to be the setting for funerary rituals that date to the ninth century and the transitional period between the Vikings and the Vandalshttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1FaBqCpxlHiSkRsPasu63nLyy9EWNXpV6https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1s3RYeHpUg87IKJSsKGTHij7ShlQOeO-ihttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1P-sf_dPiukQft4HUf_p08ZYqrTBmsvgA The inscription reads, “I, Haur of Stream, raise this stone for Raimund—the name preceding the translation by hundreds of years just as Hoga’s farm refers to the proto-Nordic term for the mounds of the Iron Age grave-field. We also encountered a few current residents along the way, including a horse masquerading as a zebra, to thwart flies and hooded, I’m given to understand, to let him acclimate to new surroundings.