Lurberget and the Brunn Silver Mine

Gästrikland · Sweden · Mine

Lady Lura guards the silver inside the mountain, said the legend, and an oak was planted over the shaft to hide it. In 2006 they dug – and found the tunnel.

Lurberget is the southern break in the esker at the village of Brunn in Hedesunda, facing Lake Flaren and the Dalälven river. According to old legend, Lady Lura guards a silver hoard inside the mountain, and she is said to be kin to Lady Sala, the mountain spirit of the Sala silver mine – a link binding together the mining folklore of two provinces. The legend further held that there had been a silver mine at Brunn, and that an oak had been planted over the filled-in shaft to conceal where it lay. In 2004 and 2005 the story was taken seriously: the old oak was felled and test drilling went down to eighteen metres. In January and February 2006 a mine tunnel was found, and in autumn 2007 the investigations reached twenty metres. A provisional dating places the mine in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The legend of the woman guarding the mountain turned out to point at a real medieval mine.

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Where is Lurberget and the Brunn Silver Mine located?

Lurberget and the Brunn Silver Mine is in Gästrikland, Sweden.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.