Lejre is a railway town, with a population of 3,165 (1 January 2024), in Lejre Municipality (Danish: Lejre Kommune) on the island of Zealand in east Denmark...
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Lejre) is a 106-acre (43 hectare) archaeological open-air museum situated in the Lejre Municipality, few kilometres west of Roskilde, Denmark. Lejre Land...
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Lejre Stadion is a football stadium that belongs to Danish Association football club FC Lejre. Lejre Stadion has a capacity of 5,300 and was built in 1989...
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Heorot (section Lejre, Zealand)
Hleiðargarðr, and located in Lejre. The medieval chroniclers Saxo Grammaticus and Sven Aggesen already suggested that Lejre was the chief residence of the...
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Chronicon Lethrense (redirect from Chronicle of Lejre)
Chronicon Lethrense (Danish: Lejrekrøniken English: Chronicle of Lejre/Leire) is a small Danish medieval work from the late 12th century, written in Latin...
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Lejre Municipality (Danish: Lejre Kommune) is a kommune in the Region Zealand of Denmark. The current municipality was established on 1 January 2007 as...
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Odin from Lejre is a small cast silver figurine from approximately 900 C.E., depicting an individual on a throne flanked by two birds and two animal heads...
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capital of the Danes was located on Zealand near Lejre and constituted what has later been dubbed the Lejre Kingdom, ruled by the Skjöldung dynasty. Some...
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visited Thorir in Gautland and then went to King Hrolf Kraki's court at Lejre in Denmark. Newly arrived, he saved a weak young thrall named Hott from...
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Roskilde Museum (redirect from Lejre Museum)
museum, which is run by the municipalities of Roskilde, Frederikssund and Lejre, has eight separate branches. The main branch in Roskilde, on the corner...
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Lejre Municipality (Lejre Kommune) was a municipality of Denmark. The former Lejre Municipality covered an area of 88 km², and had a total population of...
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won the mayor's position following the elections that had been held in Lejre Municipality since the 2007 municipal reform. The traditional red bloc had...
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Ægir (section Hlér, Læsø, Lejre, and Snow)
of the island Læsø (Old Norse Hléysey 'Hlér's island') and perhaps also Lejre in Denmark. Scholars have long analyzed Ægir's role in the Old Norse corpus...
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as introducing visitors to the discipline. Another early example is the Lejre Land of Legends, the oldest open-air museum in Denmark. The site features...
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into 17 municipalities: Faxe Greve Guldborgsund Holbæk Kalundborg Køge Lejre Lolland Næstved Odsherred Ringsted Roskilde Slagelse Solrød Sorø Stevns...
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Hvalsø (category Populated places in Lejre Municipality)
Holbæk and Kalundborg. Hvalsø will house the municipal council in the new Lejre municipality. The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform...
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found in 2000 during the excavation of a Viking farmstead in Gevninge, near Lejre, Denmark. The fragment is moulded from bronze and gilded, and consists of...
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Dan (king) (section The Lejre Chronicle)
and Denmark, mentioned in medieval Scandinavian texts. The Chronicle of Lejre (Chronicon Lethrense) written about 1170 introduces a primeval King Ypper...
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Jótun that may be seen as descending from the Scyldings, from the Kings of Lejre, the stronghold of the descendants of Dan in Denmark. Þorri is the brother...
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Ynglinga saga Lejre Chronicle Gesta Danorum Beowulf People Hrólfr Kraki Halfdan Helgi Yrsa Adils Áli Bödvar Bjarki Hjörvard Roar Locations Lejre Uppsala Fyrisvellir...
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gave his name to the market town of Roskilde and that he was buried in Lejre. However, before Ro's nephew Rolf Krage (Hroðulf), who was Helghe's son...
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technique, such as Jorvik Viking Centre in the United Kingdom, Sagnlandet Lejre and Ribe Viking Center [da] in Denmark, Foteviken Museum in Sweden or Lofotr...
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display of a niello-inlaid silver figurine found in Lejre, Denmark, which they dubbed "Odin from Lejre". The silver object depicts a person sitting on a...
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and Ingeld, the Scandinavian sources expand on his life as the king at Lejre and on his relationship with Halga, Hroðgar's brother. In Beowulf and Widsith...
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Lindholm (manor house) (redirect from Lindholm, Lejre Municipality)
Lindholm is a manor house and estate located in Lejre Municipality, between Roskilde and Tølløse, some 30 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. It has...
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excavated. In Denmark, recent (1986–88, 2004–05) archaeological excavations at Lejre, where Scandinavian tradition located the seat of the Scyldings, Heorot...
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Roskilde Festival, annual music festival. Bramsnæs Greve Gundsø Hvalsø Køge Lejre Ramsø Roskilde Skovbo Solrød Vallø 55°39′N 12°05′E / 55.650°N 12.083°E...
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the Chronicle of Lejre. Dan, son of Ypper (a primeval king of Sweden) (Hadding) (only referred to) Ro (= Haldan) Haldanus (= Ro) in Lejre and sea-king Helghe...
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Aastrup (manor house) (redirect from Aastrup. Lejre Municipality)
a manor house and estate in Elverdamsdalen, between Tølløse and Hvalsø, Lejre Municipality, some 40 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. Aastrup was...
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