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Kivik (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɕǐːvɪk]) [2] is a locality in Simrishamn Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 960 inhabitants in 2010. [1] It is in a part of Scania (Skåne) called Österlen. Kivik is known for its annual market, usually taking place on the third Monday through Wednesday of July each year.
The King's Grave (Kungagraven i Kivik, Kiviksgraven) is an archaeological site. It is situated near Kivik in the southeastern portion of Scania , Sweden. The site is what remains of an unusually grand Nordic Bronze Age double burial dating from circa the 15th century BC.
Stenshuvud is a hill in the southeastern corner of Sweden, in the province of Scania, close to Kivik in Simrishamn Municipality. Since 1986, it is one of the National parks of Sweden. The park covers an area of about 3.9 km 2 (1.5 sq mi). The hill is 97 m (318 ft) high and faces the Baltic Sea. [2]
Simrishamn is a locality and the seat of Simrishamn Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 6,527 inhabitants in 2010. [1] Despite its small population, Simrishamn is, for historical reasons, usually still referred to as a city.
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A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (in trench) at the excavation of The King's Grave in Kivik, 1922. Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (21 December 1878 – 4 March 1952) was a Swedish folklore scholar. A professor at Lund University, he was a pioneer of folklore studies in Sweden and contributed to establishing systematic methods in the field.
Vines were used as a flammable wood, where they were placed beneath a drill made of harder wood, resulting in fire. Further evidence of ritual making of fire in Scandinavia has been theorized from a depiction on a stone plate on a Bronze Age grave in Kivik, Scania, Sweden. [9]