Thursday, November 15, 2018

Legend has it...

Legend has it...
...that five Russian soldiers were killed and buried here back in 1719. The Russian fleet had attacked and the soldiers were on their way to Årsta Castle, but got lost in the forest and were then killed by a group of locals. Another legend says that around the year 1600 a servant at the castle was ordered to murder his master by the Lady at Årsta Castle. He failed, and as punishment he was paved in behind the brick wall in the castle cellar. But what we do know for sure is that this is five boundary stones that once marked the five properties that met here just across the road from the little cottage that I will show you tomorrow. The castle in case you are wondering is a couple of kilometres down the Årsta Havsbadsvägen road. We also know that this is 12 photos taken with my new 60mm lens and then stitched together just to see if it works as it should.

2 comments:

William Kendall said...

It certainly looks like the sort of spot you could spin many a tall tale about. Terrific shot!

Stuart said...

Man, your castle stories are a lot more interesting than the ones here. Oh, and nice stitching.