Birger Jarls torn
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title:
Birger Jarls torn
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Birger Jarls torn is a defensive tower on the northwest corner of Riddarholmen, an islet in Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm. The building has been named for Birger Jarl who traditionally is attributed as the founder of Stockholm, but it was built several hundred years later and the name is mostly the product of a 17th-century myth. Stockholm literally translates to "Log-Islet", and according to that myth the city was founded where a log drifting ashore from Lake Mälar.
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Defensive tower in Gamla Stan, Sweden (c. 1530)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Jarls_torn
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2022-02-05T21:53:01Z
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