#högom

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one of swedens most famous archaeological sites, if not the most famous one, is the old Uppsala kings’ mounds. if you’d only listen to what they say in most swedish schools, tourist papers, and so on, you’d get the idea: completely unique, highest of the highest statust, a true center of mid-iron age sweden!

what you wouldn’t hear, however, is that there is another site called Högom (in Sundsvall, province Medelpad) which at the time would have been equal in importance as a central seat for the rulers of the helsings (a iron age norse tribe which is very often ignored nowadays), ruling a large area between the provinces of Ångermanland, Jämtland, Hälsingland and Medelpad, which have been excavated and given a huge amount of information, including finds that have been found nowhere else in fennoscandia!

so why isn’t it more famous? I mean, there isn’t even a english language page on wikipedia about it? the answer is simple:

“because it is in Norrland” ~professor Per Ramqvist

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Runsten by frida isgren on Flickr.