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Caption: Enchanted forest
Sweden
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Caption: They say that if you listen hard enough you will hear the forest whisper.
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Caption: What do you think it will say?
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Caption: In Sweden we call the ancient forests, forests of the trolls.
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Caption: These forests are deep and there is a certain mystery surrounding them.
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Caption: The folklore tales tell a story about a naked man called Näcken who lured people in with his violin and then drowned them.
The story was told to keep people away from water. I heard it many times as a child.
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Caption: the National parks Tiveden, Tyresta, Norra Kvill
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Caption: Sweden has 29 national parks with varying nature, from islands in the south to mountains in the north.
This photo- story tells the tale of three of them.
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Caption: They are named Tiveden, Tyresta and Norra Kvill.
They have one thing in common.
They are all ancient forests.
In Swedish urskog.
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Caption: I grew up in the backyard of one of them.
I spend hours and hours exploring the forests by horse as a child.
As an adult I have come to realise how important the silent forests are to me.
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Caption: During the winter and spring I visited the ancient forest of Sweden and returned to my hometown to explore Norra Kvill yet another time.
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Caption: I returned more peaceful and focused.
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