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Posted: 07 Sep 2016


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Tjelvar's Grave

Tjelvar's Grave
Stone ship reputed to be the grave of Tjelvar, the mythical discoverer of Gotland.

What's interesting about Tjelvar's tale is that when he discovered the island, it was under a spell that made it rise from and sink back to the sea. Given that Faro was marshy and partly submerged a thousand years ago (there is evidence of a small Viking harbor in an area now quite a distance inland and dry) and the island is continually rising due to glacial rebound, it's conceivable that this element of the myth contains a germ of truth.

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