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Take Highway 153 East from Varberg and turn into Rolfstorp.
Then drive on narrow roads past Bonnagården, Hinnagården and Flähult. Then park the car, get out of it, and walk a few hundred meters into the trees.
Then you are here.
Arriving at the swamp where the brothers Thure and Gulli Johansson on a summer day in 1936 made a macabre discovery when they went to tear apart.
Threatened by vermin
What the Johansson brothers saw was the corpse that has become the most mythical in the entire Nordic region.
Bockstensmannens lik.
– That it is a kind of stacked moss is something completely unique. Legend has it that if you are very afraid that the dead will rise again and nothing else will help, you must hit their heart with an oak stick. Tie the person to the ground, antiquarian Christina Andersson-Wiking previously told GT.
A few months after the find in the swamp, Bockstensmannen was exhibited in the Varberg fortress museum for the first time. And it’s been there ever since.
But next year they will transfer it. The reason: long-tailed silverfish.
Million Notes
Bockstensmannen will have a larger and more pleasant room to rest, to the delight of visitors. At the same time, the move will reduce the risk of vermin destroying Bockstensmannen’s unique clothing, HN reports.
– The long-tailed silverfish is a general problem for museums and we must ensure that we have very tight stands. We don’t have that now. It is also important to have a relative humidity of between 45 and 55 percent and a temperature that does not fluctuate so much, the museum’s director, Cajsa Lagerkvist, explains to the newspaper.
According to HN, the new booths are expected to cost around one million crowns or slightly more and the new exhibition completes about two million.
Bockstensmannen likely died sometime between 1350-1370, according to the Halland Museum of Cultural History. In other words, it remained in the swamp for more than 600 years before it was found.
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