Jelling
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Jelling is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 4,038, located in Jelling Parish, approximately 10 km northwest of Vejle. The town lies 105 metres above sea level.
Former sign of Jelling Municipality
Jelling church and Viking Age burial mounds
History of Denmark
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The history of Denmark as a unified kingdom began in the 8th century, but prehistoric cultures populated the area for about 12,000 years, since the end of the last ice age. Historic descriptions of th
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…area. Some houses of historical value were preserved in the museum of Den Gamle By in Aarhus. Jelling is an old and important historical town in the history of Denmark. In the Viking Age it served as the royal seat of the first Monarchs of the Kingdom of Denmark, including Gorm the Old, Þyra and Harald Bluetooth…
Stone Dolmen near Vinstrup, Nørhald. Built in the 3rd millennium BC.
The famous Trundholm sun chariot (called Solvognen in Danish), a sculpture of the sun pulled by a mare. Scholars have dated it to some time in the 15th century BC and believe that it illustrates an important concept expressed in Nordic Bronze Age mythology.
The silver Gundestrup Cauldron, with what some scholars interpret as Celtic depictions, exemplifies the trade relations of the period.
The face of Tollundmanden, one of the best preserved bog body finds.