Refuge

Väggluskojan

Jämtland · SuèdeUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Väggluskojan ("Bedbug Cabin" - väggluss) in Jämtland, Bispgården/Ragunda area (northern Sweden), true altitude ~300 m (listed 0 m is erroneous and needs correcting). A humorous name typical of Swedish jaktkoja (hunting cabins). An isolated cabin in the Jämtland fjäll taiga, with Scots pines, spruces and birches. In the area of Ragundatjökeln/Döda fallet ("the dead falls", abandoned after a natural diversion in 1796).

The setting

Jämtland Bispgården/Ragunda northern Sweden, altitude listed as 0 m erroneous ~300 m actual, jaktkoja humorous "bedbug" name, fjäll taiga, Döda fallet dead falls 1796.