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The Selma Lagerlöf church way (yellow road on the map)
1. Mårbacka. Home of Selma Lagerlöf.
2. Vilarstensbacken. By the old road there is a rock
that looks like a small sofa, which is called Vilarstenen (the Restingstone).
It was here that a ghost (a priest murdered in the medieval time) kept
attacking people until the end of the 17th century. He stopped doing so
after an agreement with an great-grandmother of Selma.
3. Mårbackaåkrarna and Årängarna.
Fields belonging to Mårbacka. Here lay the old “Svartsjön”
– Black lake, which is mentioned iin the book “Liljecronas
hem”.
4. När Jong Lars. When Selma went to church on the
17th of August she noted how this farm had got a new main house. The farmer
Jon Larsson on the location is mentioned in several of her books under
different names.
5. Nästa. Farm in Södra Ås village. It
is mentioned during the trip to the railway station in the books “Jerusalem
I – II”. Even in real life Lars Clementsson lived here.
6. Där fram. In the garden belonging to this farm
in Södra Ås village, the photographer was standing when he
took the picture of Selma with the horse and carriage, and that is the
picture that now in reverse is on our 20 kronor note. The photo was taken
on the 17th of August 1919.
7. Ås Kvarn. (Ås Mill). This is where the
flour was grinded for the Mårbacka Havrekraft company. The mill
is no longer in use.
8. Skatbroa. (Magpie bridge). When Selma passed this bridge she thought
of her father’s job digging ditches that kept the river Emtan from
flooding.
9. Östanby Old School. “Klara-Gulla”
went to school here and so did Selma for a short period.
10. Bybäcken. When this modest little stream had
flooded after heavy rain, “Jan I Skrolycka” nearly got drowned
here.
11. Där Nol i By. House in By village. Here lived
Nils Melandoz who managed the church bells. In the literature he is mentioned
several times under different names. At the top of the hill in By the
road connects with the church road from Skrolycka and other places, and
this road later connects to the ancient pilgrim trail towards the church.
12. Arvidstorp. In this house “Little Ruster”
lived for a while. In the hills south of Arvidstorp were sometimes ghosts;
robbers had once murdered a riding postman there.
13. Västgård Herrgård. Country Estate.
Today called Herresta. The estate was the inspiration for “Borg”
in Selma’s stories. This is where the magpies followed Märta
Dohna. The stuckup Henric Dohna also lived here.
14. Sockenstugan. The Lagerlöf family often went
here before the church mass. Many of Selma Lagerlöf’s stories
tell us about people who lived close to the church.
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