Just a couple of hundred meters from the Stockby burial mound is an unexcavated gravefield with five stone-setting mounds. The graves are believed to date from the Viking Age (the Late Iron Age ca 800-1050 AD). According to the sign,…
Category: Sweden
Ancient Monuments on Lidingö 1: Stockby Burial Mound
In connection with my Archeology course from Uppsala University, I have been visiting burial mounds and grave fields here on Lidingö. I was very surprised to discover a Bronze or Iron Age burial mound less than a 20 minute walk…
Gallery: Medieval Week in Visby
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Gallery: The Medieval Walls of Visby
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Welcome to Egyptology!
In the two years since my last post I’ve retired from Radio Sweden (after 40 years), and gone back to school to earn a B.A. in Egyptology. Uppsala University is the only school in Sweden to offer Egyptology, so over…
Waterloo More Important Than Midsummer?
Midsummer is the most important holiday in Sweden and Denmark, after Christmas. Anyone who has experienced the darkness of the Scandinavian Winter can appreciate the desire to celebrate the light of Summer. Yet every year, it seems, the European Union…
New iPhones in Sweden a week after US
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to go on sale in Sweden (at least by Telia) on September 26.
Stockholm Hosts European Baseball Tournament
This week Stockholm is hosting a qualifying tournament for the 2014 European Cup. Besides the Swedish champs, the other teams taking part are from Moscow, Vilnius, and Bern: http://www.baseballstats.eu/2014/stockholm/schedule.php Opening Day saw Moscow drubbing Bern 12-1, while Stockholm defeated Vilnius…
Stockholm Baseball Opens 2014 season with Double Wins
Defending Swedish champs Stockholm opened the 2014 season taking a doubleheader from visiting Leksand, 6-5 and 9-3. Leksand led the first game until the bottom of the ninth inning, when Stockholm tied with a bases loaded walk. The winning run…
One of the best days of the year up here in the North
The return of Summer (Daylight Savings) Time to Europe. The end of the Darkness (for a time).