The Jelling stone ship is a stone ship, the longest known to have existed, remains of which lie under the two royal barrows at Jelling, Denmark. The Jelling...
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of runes. The Jelling stones (Danish: Jellingstenene) are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in Denmark. The...
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Bække there is a 45 m (148 ft) ship which dates to the Viking Age. Jelling stone ship. Under the southern mound in Jelling, Denmark, which is associated...
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Jelling is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 3,853 (1 January 2024), located in Jelling Parish, approximately 10 km northwest of Vejle. The...
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Þyre and has been alternatively anglicised as Thorvi and Thyre. The Jelling 1 stone, commissioned in honour of Thyra by her husband after her death refers...
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(13th century, restored). Jelling is a village within Vejle municipality famous for the Jelling stones, the Jelling stone ship and two large burial mounds...
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House of Knýtlinga (redirect from House of Jelling)
Denmark, the House of Gorm, or the Jelling dynasty. Under Harald Bluetooth's rule, he is said on a Jelling rune stone to have unified the territory that...
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Norse funeral (category Viking ship burials)
Lindholm Høje and Jelling in Denmark. A prominent tradition is that of the ship burial, where the deceased was laid in a boat, or a stone ship, and given grave...
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Runestone (redirect from Rune stone)
has media related to Runestones. The Jelling Project – Information about Jelling and the runestones Photos of runestones and image stones from Gotland...
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Peter Hess Stone (February 27, 1930 – April 26, 2003) was an American screenwriter and playwright. Stone is perhaps best remembered by the general public...
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Viking art (redirect from Jelling style)
royal monuments at Jelling in Denmark. Subsequently, and likely influenced by the spread of Christianity, the use of carved stone for permanent memorials...
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stone ship. There are other megaliths in the vicinity, including memorial stones with Latin characters from the early 20th century. In the stone ship...
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Danish island of Møn. Gorm and Thyra's Høje, two huge burial mounds at Jelling. L'Anse Amour is an archaeological site located in the Strait of Belle...
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tied. No man was a robber and a golden ring could rest on the moor of Jelling for a long time. King Fróði visited Sweden and its king Fjölnir, and from...
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Pumice (redirect from Pumice stone)
and the large volume of pumice created can be a shipping hazard for cargo ships. Pumice is composed of highly microvesicular glass pyroclastic with very...
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Viking runestones (redirect from Kjula stone)
(and) Oddi, they raised this stone in memory of Guðmarr, their father. He who died stood valiantly in the staff of the ship; (now) lies inhumed in the west...
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based on a gilded link of bronze for a dog-harness, decorated in the Jelling style, found there. [citation needed]. The grave had been extensively damaged...
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is dated as having been carved after the Jelling stones. It has been pointed out that the image of the ship has an ancient form with beaks fore and aft...
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Ilulissat Icefjord Kujataa Aasivissuit – Nipisat Jelling stones Christiansfeld Kronborg Hunting landscape Roskilde Cathedral Stevns Klint Wadden Sea The...
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the inscription on the Skarpåker Stone, with the ship and cross, is Christian. The inscription on the Skarpåker Stone has been attributed to a runemaster...
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recorded use of the word Danmark within Denmark itself is found on the two Jelling stones, which are runestones believed to have been erected by Gorm the Old...
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Björketorp Runestone (redirect from Bjorketorp Stone)
part of a grave field which includes menhirs, both solitary and forming stone circles. It is one of the world's tallest runestones measuring 4.2 metres...
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Bluetooth declared this around AD 965, and raised the larger of the two Jelling Stones. According to historian Anders Winroth, Christianity was not forced...
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List of runestones (section Image stones)
stone Gästrikland Runic Inscription 7 (Gs 7) Denmark has a total of 250 known runestones. Eltang stone Jelling stones Rimsø Runestone Snoldelev Stone...
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The inscription is dated as being carved after the Jelling stones. The runic text states that the stone was raised by Sassur as a memorial for his brother...
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The Ledberg stone, designated as Ög 181 under Rundata, is an image-stone and runestone located in Östergötland, Sweden. The Ledberg stone is a partially...
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Hunnestad Monument (category Picture stones)
Viking Age monuments in Scania, and in Denmark, only comparable to the Jelling stones. The monument was destroyed during the end of the 18th century by Eric...
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making ships and their attacks on Christian centres such as Lindisfarne not only to loot but to defend their own Norse gods. He visits the Jelling stones that...
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had many other graves in the form of burial mounds, stone circles, monumental stones and a stone ship, as well as being the original location of Sö 112...
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