Tuesday, 12 August - Part 2
Bullerbyn / Sevedstorp (Mariannelund)
Driving on from Vimmerby after having visited Astrid Lindgren's childhood home there, we also found signs pointing to Sevedstorp and Bullerbyn ("The Noisy Village"). Sevedstorp is the original name of this little village, and this is where Astrid's father Samuel August grew up (in the house in the middle of the three). It is also the village Astrid had in mind when she wrote her books about some children living in a such a village, which in the books she called Bullerbyn. (Swedish: "buller"= noise; "by" = small village)
Illustrations from my three-books-in-one volume about Bullerbyn, from 1961.
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When films based on the books were made in 1986-87 (and later turned into a TV series), those were also recorded in the actual village of Sevedstorp.
In the barn belonging to one of them, they now also have a café - at least during the summer tourist season.
The surrounding scenery is still very rural and idyllic...
... And some friendly sheep came up to the fence by the barn to say hello!
Black sheep! That is unusual, I have never seen one. And that beautiful green archway. This place almost looks like time stopped many years ago.
ReplyDeleteGinny, beacause of the connection to the famous books, trying to keep that atmosphere is no doubt also the intention... ;)
DeleteIt must have felt like stepping right into her stories
ReplyDeleteIt did, Ro.
DeleteLoved the beautiful illustration from your book - and it did depict pretty well what the cottages actually look like. It must have been like walking into the books. (Better than Disney, if you ask me!)
ReplyDeleteBarbara, definitely better than Disney :)
DeleteI loved the "Bullerbü" books (as they were called in German)! Of course you know that many place names in Yorkshire end on -by, showing their roots from the time the Vikings ruled that part of England.
ReplyDeleteIt looks really nice there in "Bullerbyn"; as you say, still rural and idyllic, not built up to within an inch of its life. Are the three houses lived in?
Meike, at least two of them, I think. At the third there was a sign that it can be rented via Airbnb. But maybe that's just in the summer tourist season...
Delete'Bullerbyn' looks a most welcoming place and the illustrations from your book are charming and so inviting. I love the sheep - are they Swedish fur sheep?
ReplyDeleteJanice, I can tell a black sheep from a white one, but that's about it... ;)
DeleteWhat a charming and immaculate place "Bullerbyn" is. The sheep look quite contented too!
ReplyDeleteCarol, they're probably living a good life even if during the tourist season not getting much "privacy"... ;)
Deletegorgeous red buildings, love those sheep and that green arbor is gorgeous and most of all I wish I could draw like that sketch in the book. wow.
ReplyDeleteSandra, the name of the artist is Ilon Wikland ans she illustrated many (perhaps most of?) Astrid Lindgren's books.
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