The Jelling stones (Danish: Jellingstenene) are massive carved runestones from the 10th century, found at the town of Jelling in Denmark. The older of the two Jelling stones was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra. The larger of the two stones was raised by King Gorm's son, Harald Bluetooth, in memory of his parents, celebrating his conquest of Denmark and Norway, and his conversion of the Danes to Christianity.
The runic inscriptions on these stones are considered the best known in Denmark.[1] In 1994, the stones, in addition to the burial mounds and small church nearby, were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as an unparalleled example of both pagan and Christian Nordic culture.[2]
^Jelling stones. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008.
^"Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 19 Jun 2021.
The older of the two Jellingstones was raised by King Gorm the Old in memory of his wife Thyra. The larger of the two stones was raised by King Gorm's...
above sea level. Jelling is located in Vejle municipality and Region of Southern Denmark. The town is mainly famous for the Jellingstones, national monuments...
death c. 958 or a few years later. He ruled from Jelling, and made the oldest of the Jellingstones in honour of his wife Thyra. Gorm was born before...
Norse). During his reign, Harald oversaw the reconstruction of the Jelling runic stones, and numerous other public works. The most famous is fortifying the...
has media related to Runestones. The Jelling Project – Information about Jelling and the runestones Photos of runestones and image stones from Gotland...
The Jellingstone 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...
recorded use of the word Danmark within Denmark itself is found on the two Jellingstones, which are runestones believed to have been erected by Gorm the Old...
Bluetooth declared this around AD 965, and raised the larger of the two JellingStones. According to historian Anders Winroth, Christianity was not forced...
in 965 AD by Harald Bluetooth, the story of which is recorded on the Jellingstones. The exact extent of Harald's kingdom is unknown, although it is reasonable...
Tørring-Uldum municipality Vamdrup municipality Vejle municipality The Jellingstones are archaeological treasures erected by Harald Bluetooth to honour his...
reigning from c. 936 to his death c. 958. He ruled from Jelling, and made the oldest of the JellingStones in honour of his wife Thyra. Gorm was born before...
of Southern Denmark. Located in the former Jelling municipality are the runic gravestones— the Jellingstones, the burial mounds, and church which became...
two Jellingstones, which are rune stones believed to have been erected by Gorm the Old (c. 955) and Harald Bluetooth (c. 965). The larger stone of the...
Old Norse with the Younger Futhark. The Jellingstones date from between 960 and 985. The older, smaller stone was raised by King Gorm the Old, the last...
and Jelling 2 stones, while another individual carved the Horne, Bække and possibly the Randbøl stones. From this, it has been argued that the Jelling stones...
The Sigurd stones form a group of eight or nine Swedish runic inscriptions (five or six runestones, two natural rocks, and a baptismal font) and one picture...
motif, likewise taken from the largest JellingStone. The passport design including images from the JellingStones was introduced in 1997, when the current...
destroyed Jellingstone ship in Denmark, which was at least 170 m (560 ft) long. In Sweden, the size varies from 67 m (220 ft) (Ale's Stones) to only a...
Viking Age monuments in Scania, and in Denmark, only comparable to the Jellingstones. The monument was destroyed during the end of the 18th century by Eric...
750 - c. 900) för-Jelling (pre-Jelling) — c. 900 Jelling (Jelling) — 10th century and into the 11th century efter-Jelling (post-Jelling) — c. 1000 – 1050...
woman with the same name than the Thyra noted on the JellingStones DR 41 and DR 42. The stone is known locally as the Læborgsten. A rhafnukatufi Hrafnunga-Tofi...
representing characters and scenes from Norse mythology, similarly to how the Jellingstones in Denmark depict Jesus with other Norse mythological characters. Its...
contained a chamber tomb, but both barrows, the church and the two Jellingstones testify to how important it was to mark death ritually during the pagan...
is claimed to be the king not only of Denmark but also Norway on the Jellingstones. The late ninth-century account of Norway provided by Ohthere to the...
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