The Millenium Trail - Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist pt 1
The Vangers residence
Fron the Film; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ( Swedish version)
Trail done in June 2022
In the beginning of Stieg Larssons groundbreaking Nordic Noir triology about Skilled Hacker Lisbeth Salander and Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, the ladies man and the stuborn Muckraker. The Journalist is sentenced for slander.
He have to take a break from his Magazine Millenium. A small but important magazine. A mixture between Stieg Larssons own anti-racist magazine Expo and the left leaning, free minded magazine of ETC. Mikael Blomkvist have in my eyes, more of traits of ETC's Johan Ehrenberg than Stieg Larsson.
In wait of doing time, Mikael is offered a bit of detective work for Henrik Vanger. A powerful billionaire from a business family since generations. The resemblence to the Wallenberg family is a bit obvious. But this is fiction so Stieg Larsson gave them a fictional touch. Wallenberg's as role models are often used in films. Not least Jönssonligan for instance.
The Locations in the book and films are set to somewhere in Västernorrland. Somewhere in the districts Hälsingland, Medelpad or Ångermanland. In the filmed versions they use locations here and there and much is filmed in the greater Stockholm area, The Districts of Sörmland and Uppland as you also will notice in later posts.
The Cabin by the sea, that is supposed to be by a lake in Norrland, where Mikael Blomkvist stays to make his investigation. And where Lisbeth Salander is having sex with him, is on a part of the estate where I as a trailer is allowed to enter. The Cabin looks different today. The big windows that can be seen in the Swedish version is removed and so is the whole entrance section of the building. I guess it is restored to how it was originally when built? In the film the house is in a light color. Light gray maybe or is it just the frost over the red that makes it?
Now it is Falu-red.
The big old Mansion from 1756 is in a private part of the land and I don´t get as nice shots and views of it as I wish and had to be a bit creative. This is not a right to roam area. "You can't always get as You want" as Rolling Stones sing. But I am there. I can see through the big trees. Close enough. I should mention that there have been Mansions here at least since the 14th century.
How to get there, Take the Saltsjöbanan trains from Nacka to Erstaviksbadet's station, then walk through the woods, pass Erstavikbadet and you are there. Not the fastest to reach locations in the Millenium Universe. But a beautiful and nice walk.
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| At the otherside of the bay stands the Vanger estate. |
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| One of the more beautiful walks to the goals |
