Swedish
I slutet av 1800-talet levde i Tyresö en gammal gumma, som kallades för Bullran. Här i eken drev hon en liten affär, där hon sålde snus och karameller till forbipasserande.
Eken är ihålig och var på den tiden försedd med en dörr. År 1929 murades öppningen igen med cement. Ärtalet är inristat i cementen.
Detta här berättats av en tidigare skogvaktare vid Tyresö egendom, Anders Olof Willix, född i Tyresö är 1900. Had hade i sin tur fått upgifterna från sin far Anders Willix, född 1854.
Information tagen från skylten på plats
English
According to a former gamekeeper of Tyresö estate, Anders Olof Willix, in the late 1800s an old woman, called Bullran, lived in Tyresö. The oak is hollow and at the time it was equipped with a door and from within this magnificent tree Bullran ran a small shop where she sold snus (snuff) and sweets to people passing by - hence the name of the place - Snus Bullra(n) Eken (roughly translated as Snuff-Bullran's Oak). However, in 1929, the entrance was cemented in (the date is engraved in the cement).
Anders, who was born in Tyresö in 1900, was told the story of Bullran by his father, also Anders Willix, who was born here in 1854.
Rough translation of the information on the sign at the site.
Looking at this magnificent tree one can only imagine how old it must be. If 200 years ago it was big enough to house a shop then surely it must be well over 300 years old now!?!?