Gävle

This location is mentioned in the following paragraphs:

(§69) Towards GӒVLE I saw a rune-stone; it is said to have been read so I did not tarry over it.

(§71) 14th. Departed from Gävle after church and after obtaining a valid travel pass from the Provincial Governor and his secretary. I was well entertained by Inspector Lönbom of the Customs.

(§72) Here in Gävle are to be found the last apothecary in the north and the last Provincial Doctor.

(§75) HILLE church, 5 miles. Here lies the start of a ridge which runs all the way to the next inn - 5 miles - and which separates 2 lakes. On the highest point of this ridge, almost 7 miles from Gävle, stood a cluster of various burial mounds constructed of stone.

(§232) I set off on my way about noon and I must admit that, all the elements being against me, I have never met anything to equal it for difficulty. The road consisted of nothing but stone upon stone with great tree-roots tangled among them. There were deep holes between them, which both the rain and the frost that was thawing out of the ground were doing their best to fill. The twigs on the trees were laden with raindrops and hung in my eyes whichever way I turned. Wherever there were slender birch trees, they were bent so low that progress became utterly laborious. Long-lived pines that had towered over the other trees for any number of years had been cast hither and thither across the road by the fury of Juno.6 The bums that sometimes crossed my path were very deep and the bridges over them so rotten that crossing them on a stumbling horse put me in mortal peril. The road seemed beyond repair unless Bielke in Gävle was put in charge.7 Many people had earlier sought to persuade me that the journey to Lycksele was impossible in summer but I had comforted myself with Solomon's words that nothing under the sun is impossible; now if ever, however, I found that my patience was in short supply. To add to these difficulties, I was sitting on a horse without a padded saddle and with a rope tied around its lower jawbone in place of a bridle.

Practical data about this location:

• Written: Gävle
• GPS (lat,lon): [60.67452, 17.14174]
• Geoname: 2712414