Ancient Burial

Some 5500 years ago a band of Swedes laid their Chief to rest beneath a stone roof upon a high promontory overlooking the sea. Setting giant 4000 pound boulders in a square they laid his body to rest within, capping the whole with another large stone. The whole they buried under dirt. There he lay until his bones shed his skin and the hair of his beard fell away. For thousands of years he looked out over the wind swept waters.

But his rest was not to last. King Ales, or so some legends say, died 3000 years ago and his people set to building him a tomb. They used great stones, set in the shape of ship, setting them on a high bluff overlooking the sea. They chose the very site that their ancient Chief's bones had occupied for so long. Some of these stones for the ship came from the dolmen of the chief that time had long forgotten. So King Ales lay to rest upon the bones of his ancient forebears, there to look out over the sea he loved.

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