Sveg

Sveg stands beside the Ljusnan in Härjedalen, a forested inland district between the Swedish plains and the Scandinavian mountains. Its church and assembly place served the surrounding countryside; a local assembly is recorded here in the late thirteenth century, making Sveg a meeting place for the scattered communities of the district. Härjedalen belonged to Norway throughout the Middle Ages, though its eastern valleys also faced Swedish lands.

During the Northern Seven Years' War, forces from Hälsingland burned Sveg's stone church in 1563. The border country continued to suffer in the wars between Denmark-Norway and Sweden. Under the Treaty of Brömsebro in 1645, Härjedalen and neighbouring Jämtland passed to Sweden, changing the allegiance of communities whose roads and rivers crossed the old frontier.