January 25, 2020:
Drive south through Östra Grevie. Soon after is Möllevången. There is a road to Månstorp's gables, which I last visited in 2011. The parking at a yard is still there. A family is already in place. The gables are remnants of a castle from the 16th century, which was destroyed by the Danes in 1678. The sun has one of its few days this autumnal winter. It's breezy, the castle is reflected in the moat. Walks the wooden bridge over the moat. The bridge is slippery. The ruin is similar from the last visit. The front seems to have been reinforced since last time. The ruin is restored with brick walls. (more about the ruin in my previous visit below). Some Winter Aconite bloom on the slope towards the castle. From the yard next door a dog bark at us. Something that hits the moat, maybe the child in the family who has thrown off a good deal? Outside is a rolling landscape. Despite the sun it is a little chilly.

April 2, 2011: I will visit a friend on Söderslätt. On the way I visit Månstorp gables between Västra Ingelstad and Östra Grevie. A sign show where I have to leave the road. But then? Coming out on the road again, turn back. An unreadable sign and plate with the road name I should enter, Annelundsv, are pointing in the wrong opposite direction. I turn onto the gravel road, a sign show me up in the courtyard to a yard. "Visitors to Månstorps gables park here" it says. Do so.

The castle was built in 1540-47 in a circular embankment with a moat. It was probably grand in those days. It was destroyed by the Danes in 1678 during the war 1675-79. Then stones and bricks was taken and used for other things. Today remains outer walls, a part of the embankment and moat. During a restoration in the 1970s gable facing today's farm was built up with bricks. Today is the ruin used for music, at the ruins are arranged during the summer 'Songs at Månstorp gables' (Visor på Månstorp) .

I walk the bridge over the moat to the gables. Beware of falling stones and bricks, a sign say. Inside, the walls are rising high up. Of the interior is nothing left. These walls look rigid. Through a window I look out over fields. Go out on the side of today's farm. Some bricks have fallen down, the warning is probably valid. Goes up on the south embankment to see the gables in its entirety. Despite the collapse warning I am leaning myself in through a window, get a little dizzy to look down into the interior. Easier to see the views of the surrounding landscape. On the other side are flowering winter aconite. Spring breaks winter, the long winter is giving up.

Time to drive on. Strangely, the sign pointing to the site is now pointing in the correct direction. Has anyone noticed my confusion, fooled me, or ...? Fog sweeps gently into the landscape, fairies dance across the newly plowed fields. Viewing Fuglie church, next to it is a hill, probably a burial mound. Open the gate and go up. There is a rune stone and a bench to rest on. It is probably the stone's original location, which is unusual with the Scanian rune stones. The runes are hard to see, they are not painted. My book interpret it as:
"Önde raised stone after Öde, his brother, he died on Gotland, God help his soul."
A Christian rune stone.

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Visor på Månstorp

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