The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two horns made of sheet gold, discovered in Gallehus, north of Møgeltønder in Southern Jutland, Denmark. The horns dated to the early 5th century, i.e. the beginning
The replicas of the Golden Horns of Gallehus exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark
Detail of the runic inscriptions found on one of the copies housed at the Moesgaard Museum.
The Girl Who Finds The Gold Horn (1906) by Harald Slott-Møller.
Depiction of the horn found AD 1734 on 21 April near the village of Gallehus, in Schackenborg county, not far from the town of Tønder as a peasant was digging, at nearly the same place as a similar one was found AD 1639. It is made from a double gold sheet, the outer one of very fine, the inner of inferior gold. It holds one Maß or ... and weighs 7 pounds 14 ounces
The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen is Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main building is located a sh
Golden Horns of Gallehus
…exclusively and are accordingly fraught with uncertainty. Nevertheless, replicas of the original horns were produced, two of them exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, with copies at e.g. the Moesgaard Museum, near Aarhus, Denmark. These replicas also have a history of having been stolen and retrieved…
The Prince's Mansion in Copenhagen, home of the National Museum of Denmark
The Veksø helmets - Bronze Age horned helmets from Brøns Mose at Veksø on Zealand, Denmark
Gundestrupkarret (the Gundestrup cauldron), dating from the 1st century BC