This location is mentioned in the following paragraphs:
(§63) Just as we left Uppland I saw a couple of oak trees, but no more after that - I was already on the Medelpad side by then, however.
(§70) There was also a frame, 16 feet in height, for drying corn and peas. All the corn is dried on these up-country, throughout the whole of Hälsingland, Medelpad, Ångermanland and Västerbotten.
(§132) Medelpad
(§133) The boundary between Hälsingland and Medelpad lies between RÖDE in Gnarp and the DINGERSJÖ inn. It is marked by 2 posts, one standing on each side of the road. I noticed immediately that 'Erica' [Heather] became rather less common and was supplemented by 'Myrtillus baccis nigris' [Blaeberry]. Birch trees also became more abundant, and to my left there lay big grey hills. Throughout the whole district, stones the size of 2 fists lay in a jumble below the cliffs along the road. Not having been disturbed, they were all greyish-green from a thin covering of moss.
(§137) The highest hill in Medelpad (according to the inhabitants) lies on the left-hand side 1 3/4 miles from the inn and is called NOLBYKNYLEN or NOLBYKULLEN. It really is a high hill, so I rode on to NOLBY where I tethered my horse to a runestone and took a companion with me for the ascent. We went up the left-hand side where we saw all kinds of rare plants such as 'Fumaria bulbosa minima' [corydalis], 'Moschatel' and 'Campanula serpyllifolia' [Twinflower] in better condition than I have ever seen them. Here I found a small rare moss.
(§159) We now left Medelpad with its 'Napellus' [Northern Wolfsbane] and its sand-covered roads, so similar to those in Hälsingland.
(§161) Five miles from the inn there lies a small bridge over a little river between 2 small lakes and this marks the boundary between Medelpad and Ångermanland.
(§166) The wooded slopes here were more suitable for clear-burning than they had been earlier since, once the fire had passed, a covering of soil was left behind rather than the heaps of stones that get left in Hälsingland and Medelpad.
(§178) On travelling 1 3/4 miles into the forest in this neighbourhood, I saw that the ground was half-covered in snow to the depth of 6 inches. I missed all the pleasing spring flowers, for they had gradually become fewer during the course of the day, and the birches here - unlike those yesterday - had not yet opened their leaves to adorn the forest. Only the evergreen plants such as 'Erica' [Heather] and 'Vaccinium' [cowberry and cranberry] were visible through the snow. The reason why the snow was still lying here was that terribly high hills lay all around and the forest cloaked everything. The hills prevented the pleasant west wind from playing here and the trees excluded the south wind. And all the warm rain was captured by the trees of the vast forest. Almost the whole province consists of hills, hence the numerous channels that run down to the valleys between each and every hill. Since rainwater cannot remain on a steep slope, it runs off the side and finds its escape via these channels. The same is true in Hälsingland and Medelpad.
(§782) Soft whey-cheese is sold by the pan in Medelpad. In Dalarna and Medelpad some people keep their cattle 80 to 100 miles away in the mountains because there are wasps and mat-grass low down. They have milking booths up there. When cheese is being made, the whey is boiled and rendered down by 2/3 until it goes like porridge. This is sometimes eaten as butter, sometimes a little of it is mixed in with dough, sometimes it is used in other ways.
(§918) The dean's wife (of whose reliability I am certain) told me how she had seen people collect and boil the large 'Aconitum' [Northern Wolfsbane] and eat it like cabbage in the Björsjö inn in the parish of Torps in Medelpad. This had terrified her since they use the root for killing flies in Jämtland, but the woman who was cooking it scoffed at the dean's wife and claimed that this was a plant that really should not be avoided.
(§954) In Medelpad and other places where the people work shielings they are put in the charge of a farm-girl and it is her job to produce 18 pounds of butter, 18 pounds of cheese and 18 pounds of whey butter per cow.
Practical data about this location:
- Written: Medelpad
- GPS (lat,lon): [62.6, 16.25]
- Geoname: 2692266