Korpamoen

The small cottage in Bondeskog played a crucial role in Vilhelm Moberg's novels about the emigrants Karl-Oskar and Kristina, as it was here that he settled the couple before they left their homeland. However, it was not here that the film from 1971 was shot, but at Klasatorpet outside Långasjö, which was then referred to as Korpamoen.

The cottage consists of a single room and a kitchen, beautifully situated in a clipped birch grove. There is a small barn, a root cellar, and a few small fields, which are quite typical of how cottages looked at that time. Vilhelm Moberg's book about Karl-Oskar and Kristina was published in 1949, and it was only after that the house was given the property designation Korpamoen 4:18, named after Moberg's fictional name. The name is a combination of "Korp," describing a pointed hoe often called a "poor man's plow," and "Moen," referring to the most nutrient-poor soil one can imagine (mo/mjäll = floury and sandy).

Today, Korpamoen is managed by the Korpamoen Association, which opens it to visitors during the summer.