Skellefteå

This location is mentioned in the following paragraphs:

(§441) When I reached the inn at SUNNANÅ I could see a great mass of houses by SKELLEFTEÅ church on the other side of a large river. I was ferried over and it was a proper little town of 350 to 400 houses with white chimneys, all laid out in 2 streets with side-streets linking them. They told me that every farmer in the parish had his own house here and that he stayed in it on feast days.

(§446) The dean in Skellefteå told me of a Lapp at the last assizes who accused his neighbour of having twice as much land as him without paying any more in tax. The accused consequently became liable for twice as much tax as before. In his annoyance, the latter revealed the existence of a vein of silver ore and, because of this, he was exempted from tax by royal ordinance. He went to the other party and said: "There, you see, now I am exempt from tax and you are not”.

Practical data about this location:

• Written: Skellefteå
• GPS (lat,lon): [64.75067, 20.95279]
• Geoname: 602913