Granö

This location is mentioned in the following paragraphs:

(§249) 28th. I journeyed from Tegsnäset to GRANÖN but, as I was to go by boat from there to Lycksele and it was very windy, I had to wait until the following day. I did not get here, in any case, until 9 o'clock and then had to wait until 11 o'clock as the people had gathered for prayers and homilies. I could not set off as it was a good 35 miles to Lycksele and there was no farm to rest at on the way.

(§253) 29th. I left Granön very early in a "håp", that is, a small boat, which I shall describe below, on the western branch of the Ume river, for the Ume river is composed of two branches which join up at GRESILE 13 miles from Umeå. One branch comes from Lycksele and the other from Sorsele (NB. so they claim). We travelled on the western branch to Lycksele.

(§270) There were numerous small fish close to the river bank in Lycksele. The river is divided into "selar", i.e. navigable sections between "forsar", i.e. rapids or narrows. Starting from Granön and counting the length of them in miles, these are:

(§280) Wild reindeer are seldom to be found in Lappmark though there are a few on the common-land between Granön and Lycksele. It often happens that people who have a large number of reindeer lose some and do not find them again until the following year. If the animals still refuse to follow when they are being driven towards the herd, they are shot.

(§304) We came in the evening to an island where there were fishermen who were farmers from Granön 45 miles away. They had built a house for themselves here, just like a sauna hut but without a stovepipe so that the smoke went out through the door. They slept on moss. They had hung up their fish to dry, 300 pounds of it, mostly pike and some char. The guts and fat had been scraped out of them and put aside to ferment; from it they would produce a fat or lard for greasing shoes.

(§394) 7th June. I departed from Granön quite early in the morning 3nd I noticed that wondrous gelatinous substance on the junipers in the forest - see Polonus' 'De morbis regis' for more about this and its mighty powers.1

(§1137) 28th. I put behind me the exceedingly difficult road (it cannot be called a highway since it is just like the road between the town of Umeå and Granön) which runs all the way from LAPPFJӒRD near Christina to HVISBOFJӒRD near BJÖRNEBORG.

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• GPS (lat,lon): [64.25, 19.3]
• Geoname: 2711126