Thanks for the link.

Your Danish interpretation is done impressively.

The first picture shows Brømsebæk, dkse before 1658.

The border line is assume to be founded around in the 1050'es. Denmark had already been an "state" unit for some time, while SE was young. The founding of SE could be the reason to define the border. The area is inaccessable and thus also created a natural border. It's more and less the natural border of deciduous and coniferios forest.

Then the text tells who was on the demarcation team. And where the six markers are placed.

The stone marks a 500 km border. Later the border line was further defined in treaties. In a book from around year 1200, 90 markers are mentioned on the Halland side alone. The border line is now the province (landskab) borders. (The Swedish province borders do not follow administrative borders I believe).

The border markers was chosen stones already in the area. And as they were not inscripted, they were hard to find. Nevertheless they are found.

The second picture is a dkse border stone.

Initially Halland went as far as the Göte-Elv (Gothen River?), which were dkno. Later SE got access to the sea, and so Gothenburg was build on the 20 km narrow stribe between no and dk.

Jesper

----- Original Message -----

From: ps1966nl

To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:57 PM

Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Old DEDK maps online

Jesper Nielsen wrote: "There is a new great map service at the Danish Map service office. See 1:20 000 from 1842-99 next to present 1:25 000 maps. However the present DEDK border with markers is included so these map can only be from 1920." Thanks! I agree, a really great site. Now on the subject of old Danish boundaries, could you please have a look at http://www.skaanskfremtid.dk/hist/graense.html , and tell us what it's all about. As far as I can decipher the Danish, it's about the old dkse boundary in the Middle Ages, when Scania was part of Denmark. It looks like some (six) big stones, like the one on the second picture, were integrated into the boundary demarcation, and thus promoted to the status of boundary marker. Peter S.

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