Abstract
The mountain of Omberg rises high above the plain. It has functioned as a hub in the landscape, and many oral traditions have been woven around it. The mountain was not inhabited by man, but by supernatural creatures. In its interior, Rödgavel, the lord of the mountain, lived together with his people. H is female counterpart, Omma, who was the mist personified, was associated with the remains on top of the mountain. That a mountain has a female/male dimension is very unusual. Omberg can be interpreted as a gateway into the landscape where the supernatural and human worlds met.The article aims to make landscape visual by means of folklore traditions.
Highlights
The mountain of Omberg rises high above the plain
THE SETT11VG Certain landscapes with unusual or monumental traits have captured the attention of people more than others have, and become the subject of people's stories.The area around Omberg in western Östergötland is such a landscape
In the centre of the national heritage area we find evidence of our own use of the cultural landscape as a recreational area
Summary
The mountain of Omberg rises high above the plain It has functioned as a hub in the landscape, and many oral traditions have been woven around it. The Omberg-Tåkern area has been selected to represent a part of Sweden's national heritage (Sw. riksintresseområde) It has a concentration of cultural remains from different time periods that are placed in one of Sweden's most vivid and shifting types of landscapes, the plain (cf Svensson 1998). Since my aim is to visualize the landscape through oral history, I have selected all the traditions that are place-bound, whether they concern natural or cultural remains. The lakes Tåkern and Vättern and the islands in Vättern were formed long before man existed The giant put his big fist in Dag's bog and took up a stone that he threw towards Västergötland. The mountain seems to have been looked upon as extremely old, as something that had always existed
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