{"id":9208,"date":"2010-08-20T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T06:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/9208"},"modified":"2010-08-20T23:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T06:30:21","slug":"a-visit-to-sigtuna-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9208","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to Sigtuna, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North of Stockholm lies the town of Sigtuna, the oldest medieval village in Sweden, founded around 790 AD .\u00a0 The town hall dates from 1744. Visitors are told that, at one time,\u00a0the residents of Sigtuna all knew that a key to the town hall was hidden behind one of the shutters. On occasion,\u00a0if someone\u00c2\u00a0had too much to drink and was reluctant\u00c2\u00a0to deal with his wife&#8217;s scolding for getting drunk, he would\u00c2\u00a0let himself into the town hall to sleep it off and then face his wife in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Stora Gatan (High Street) is the main street though the town, lined with low wooden buildings and dotted with quaint shops. Notice the dragon guarding the Tourist Information Office .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Also on Stora Gatan is Tant Bruns Kaffestuga, a coffee house named after a character\u00c2\u00a0in the children&#8217;s book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0by Elsa Beskow, who lived in Sigtuna. \u00c2\u00a0More than 30 runic stones can be found in Sigtuna. The one shown here is located near Mariakyrkan, the Maria Church. The runic stone reads &#8220;The Guild-brethren of the Frisians had this stone set up in memory of their guild-brother. God help his soul. Torbj\u00f6rn carved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-Town-Hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9222\" title=\"Sigtuna Town Hall\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-Town-Hall-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Sigtuna Town Hall\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sigtuna Town Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Sigtuna Town Hall (Sigtuna, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-Dragon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9223\" title=\"Dragon in Sigtuna\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-Dragon-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon in Sigtuna\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dragon in Sigtuna<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Dragon in Sigtuna (Sigtuna, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-House.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9225\" title=\"House on Stora Gatan\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-House-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"House on Stora Gatan\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tant Bruns Kaffestuga<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Tant Bruns Kaffestuga (Sigtuna, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-Runestone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9227\" title=\"Runic Stone\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sigtuna-Runestone-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Runic Stone\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Runic Stone<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Runic Stone\u00c2\u00a0(Sigtuna, Sweden), photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 Aug 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North of Stockholm lies the town of Sigtuna, the oldest medieval village in Sweden, founded around 790 AD.  The town hall dates from 1744. Visitors are told that, at one time, the residents of Sigtuna all knew that a key to the town hall was hidden behind one of the shutters. On occasion, if someone had too much to drink and was reluctant to deal with his wife&#8217;s scolding for getting drunk, he would let himself into the town hall to sleep it off and then face his wife in the morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/9208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,234],"class_list":["post-9208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-sigtuna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}