Gudhem

	Gudhem
	Gudhem
State :	Sweden
Province (län):	Västra Götalands län
Historical Province (landskap):	Västergötland
Municipality :	Falkoping
Coordinates :	58 ° 14 ' N , 13 ° 34' E Coordinates: 58 ° 14 ' N , 13 ° 34' E
SCB code :	5264
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	429 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	0.41 km²
Population density :	1046 inhabitants / km²
	List of perpetrators in Västra Götaland County

Gudhem is a place ( Tatort ) in the Swedish province of Västra Götalands län and the historic province of Västergötland . The place in the municipality of Falköping is about seven kilometers north of the city of Falköping . The name means home of gods.

history

A gold treasure consisting of various spirals was found near the site.

In Gudhem there are the ruins of the former medieval monastery ruins Gudhem and the Gudhem royal court, today a treatment center for alcohol and drug addicts.

Queen Gunhild Svensdotter (or Haraldsdotter) daughter of Svein Håkonsson Ladejarl is said to have died here around 1060. She was the wife of King Anund Jacob of Sweden and presumably King Sven II of Denmark.

If there was ever " Odin's Land", as the skalds Brage Broddarsson and Snorri Sturluson wrote it, it must have been between Vänern and Vättern . Here are the ship setting of Askeberga (also Ranes Stenar; called - Rane was one of the names of Odins in the region), Kung Ranes Hög, Odenslunda ( German "Odins hain" ) and in old documents the lake east is called "Odins See" . Accordingly, the place name Gudhem means "home of the gods".

Gudhem is the setting for the novel The Penitent of Gudhem by Jan Guillou .

Gudhem Church by the ruins of the monastery
Monastery ruin
Monastery ruin (detail)
Monastery ruin (detail)

Web links

Commons : Gudhem - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
↑ Germanic religious history: Sources and source problems Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.) S. 525 and J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem, Frühmedalterliche Studien 19 (1985) S. 131–38: “A special case is the name Gudhem ( Gudhjem, Gudme, Gudum), which occurs several times in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. As John Kousgård Sørensen (1926-1999) has shown convincingly, this name is based on an identical appellative, literally home of gods ”.
↑ Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.): Germanic religious history: sources and source problems. P. 525. J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem. In: Early Medieval Studies. 19 (1985). Pp. 131-138. “The name Gudhem (Gudhjem, Gudme , Gudum), which occurs several times in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, is a special case . As J. Kousgård Sørensen has shown convincingly, this name is based on an identical appellative, literally home of the gods . "

[scb_aktuell-1] Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per Tatort, folkmängd and invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

[2] Germanic religious history: Sources and source problems Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.) S. 525 and J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem, Frühmedalterliche Studien 19 (1985) S. 131–38: “A special case is the name Gudhem ( Gudhjem, Gudme, Gudum), which occurs several times in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. As John Kousgård Sørensen (1926-1999) has shown convincingly, this name is based on an identical appellative, literally home of gods ”.

[3] Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.): Germanic religious history: sources and source problems. P. 525. J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem. In: Early Medieval Studies. 19 (1985). Pp. 131-138. “The name Gudhem (Gudhjem, Gudme , Gudum), which occurs several times in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, is a special case . As J. Kousgård Sørensen has shown convincingly, this name is based on an identical appellative, literally home of the gods . "