Aarhus Runestones information

The Aarhus Runestones or Ålum Runestones are six Viking Age runestones which were discovered in and around the city of Aarhus, Denmark. The stones are...

erecting runestones as a memorial to dead men began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, but the majority of the extant runestones date from...

ground. Despite the conflicts, Aarhus continued to prosper from the trade and the finding of six runestones in and around Aarhus indicates the city had some...

runestone that was discovered in Aarhus, Denmark. The inscription features a facial mask and memorializes a man who died in a battle. The runestone is...

the first city wall to 934. Aarhus must have been a town of some importance in the Viking Age, as there are six runestones in or near the city. The name...

About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn. Of these, the runic text on other sixteen runestones use the same Old Norse...

The first written study of runestones, it is also one of the only surviving sources for depictions of numerous runestones and inscriptions from Denmark...

Urnes-Romanesque Style does not appear on runestones which suggests that the tradition of making runestones had died out when the mixed style made its...

parallel with the Latin alphabet. The runestones are unevenly distributed in Scandinavia: Denmark has 250 runestones, Norway has 50 while Iceland has none...

Kolind is served by Kolind railway station on the Grenaa Line between Aarhus and Grenaa. BY3: Population 1. January by urban areas, area and population...

Willibrord's unsuccessful mission among the Danes in the early 8th century. Runestones, place names and medieval personal names evidence that the pagan Danes...

Danmark within Denmark itself is found on the two Jelling stones, which are runestones believed to have been erected by Gorm the Old (c. 955) and Harald Bluetooth...

public works. The most famous is fortifying the fortress of Aros (nowadays Aarhus) which was situated in a central position in his kingdom in the year 979...

Sweden. Literature in Stockholm began during the Viking Age, when numerous runestones were carved in the area due to its importance as a trading hub. However...

of Aarhus, Denmark. MOMU cooperates with the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Medieval and Renaissance Archaeology and Anthropology at Aarhus University...

Grønland. In: Else Roesdahl (Hrsg.): Dagligliv i Danmarks middelalder. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2004, ISBN 87-7934-106-3. Niels Lynnerup: Life and Death...

Edgar the Ætheling who fought in the Norman conquest of southern Italy. Runestones were raised in Sweden in memory of warriors who died in Langbarðaland...

Lild Church. The current organ was built in 1937 by A. C. Zachariasen from Aarhus, and was donated by Ane Albech. Odder Parish Church is located in Odder...

orally from the 9th century onwards and also appears on runestones, such as the Karlevi Runestone. In Iceland the sagas of Icelanders are the best-known...

deeds associated with the Christianization of Denmark. Viborg has St Kjeld, Aarhus has St Niels (also called St Nickolas), Odense has St Canute (Danish: Sanct...

Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives. Aarhus University Press. ISBN 978-87-7934-935-3. Archived from the original on...

The late Viking Age DR 66 runestone from Aarhus commemorates a man who "met death when kings fought". The event referred to may be the Battle of Svolder...

one Danish ship burial is known, from Ladbyskibet. The images on the runestones at Jelling are probably the best known Danish works of the period. Although...