Denmark Was BORN HERE – Kongernes Jelling

Denmark Was BORN HERE – Kongernes Jelling

Right. Right. We’re going to the Yelling Stones, aren’t we? Yeah. Not very far from here. It’s 12 km 12 minutes. I think we found somewhere to park. So, we’ve got the two vans. There’s a museum. And obviously, there’s the stones, which we’ll tell you all about when we get there. KS Har is just up here on the left. 100 meters. Arrive at Klewaria 22 on the left. That’s what we’re looking for. Ki bar. Is that park in there then? Yeah. Yeah. For motor homes over here. Not the best surface in the world. Oh no. Yep. Parking’s all right. Surface a bit a little bit strange, but Get going. Owens in Ravens. Hugan and Moon. Where’s Thor’s hammer? Yeah. And Fen Fenry Sulvin. Okay. Obviously started theological le legs. Okay. Going to be a hammer. Yeah. tells you what’s here. Yeah, it says more than a thousand years ago, the Viking kings Gorm the Old and his son Harold Bluetooth erected these monuments here at Yelling. The area offers a fa fascinating peak into the monarchy and politics of the 10th century. New Yelling dynasty begun by King Gorm and Queen Thyro was continued by Harold Bluth. Following generations of kings was Sven Fortbebeard and Koops the Great. both who came to rule over England. So at first two rows of large stones were arranged here in the shape of the ship. A burial mound was constructed in the center of the ship. To the south, a second mound was constructed and to encompass it all, a palisade wall with a perimeter of 1.4 kilometers. Here at the landscape’s highest point, the kings had runstones erected. The largest of them had a clear message. The realm was united under a single king and officially Christian. That’s a picture from above of the whole site Bluetooth runstone yelling stones and the mound top of the mound you can have a view of their colossal monuments. Okay. So, I’m looking forward to this. And this is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Camera. What did you say? Ara. No, he was wondering what that was. It’s a camera. This is the site of a 1,440 meter palisade. There we are. You can look through the make the symbol. Yeah, just cross the thing. I don’t know if you can see that. Yeah. So, the symbols we know as the Bluetooth symbol are the B and the H. That’s where we get our Bluetooth symbol from. Harold Bluetooth. I think so. Oh, yeah. There’s a huge museum in there. There’s a little cafe here as well. Okay. Quite dark in here, but the axe, the stone, the sword. Weapons of the elite. Guess in battle go to the funeral p the by frost bridge and then you into Valhalla. Oo, it’s spooky, isn’t it? 950s significant changes occur in Danish kingdom. King Harold governs the kingdom for almost 30 years through alliances and war. He enlarges this domain and on all the magnets of the kingdom agree with Harold and alliances are made to be broken. To the north he needs to hold the unruly Norwegians in a tight reign. With their large fleets, they’re always a threat. On the other hand, as ruler of Norway, Harold can utilize their fleets for his own plans. South of the Baltic, he becomes an ally of Prince Mistoi to counter the threat of Emperor Otto, his mighty Holy Roman Empire, who keeps an eye on Harold. But Harold knows how to play the power game. King Harold had the problem. Shall I fight against the new religion or accept it? Will the Danes accept a new god or continue with their old religion of many gods? Okay. Jelly yelling became the place where the crown built bigger than anywhere else. A harl blue tooth. It was important to show the surrounding world that a new king had arrived with great ambitions. Hundreds of years the great fortification the Dane work had provided protection against enemies to the south. King Harold then extended it to the 6.5 km defense south of Hedbe. The core vicar is dead straight and 2 m high. 7 to 8 m wide ramparts. Below the rampart was a 3 m deep V-shaped ditch. So the ship itself is 72 m long. If you go from here, from this corner to there. Oh, missed it. Oh, missed it again. That’s 72 m. And from there to there is 72 m. And there to there to there 72 m. Wow. Picture of the bridge here. construct the bridge 980 at Revenger. Short ride from Yelling is 760 m long and 5 m wide. Harold makes the Danes Christian. The church building boom. God’s word reaches the people. Reformation. New Protestant church gives the pulpit a new lease of life. Christians on the move. King allows Protestant Hugenauts to come to Frederick. Vanical Luenical Lutheran Church is the Danish national church supported by the state. 68 war settlement of some sort then 50 walls 1900s gosh the village is big big difference this is 15 Oh, yeah. Yeah. A little bit about the um the excavations here inside the mound. church. Bones under the church. Found a burial chamber under the church. There’s the church. And there’s the mound. Monarchy in crochet form. That’s great, isn’t it? Magnus the good. There it goes all the way. So they started having Where is it? Lost it. Christian Frederick Christian Frederick Christian Frederick Christian Frederick Christian Frederick. It carried on. I think someone broke it, didn’t they? Yeah. There we go. Yes. Christian Frederick Christian Frederick. Margaret Margaret and then Frederick again. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so Queen Margaret to kick this off then all in crochet. That’s brilliant. It’s quite it’s like you can choose where where you’re looking here with a joystick. It’s all the kings and a queen. There’s the car park we’re in. There’s the church. And there’s the node. Look at that. Wow. That way. That’s it. Oh, yeah. That’s good, isn’t it? long houses. There’s a little explanation here about the runstones of what they’ve found on it. Harold Gorm Tyra Denmark a Christ side and a text side and an animal side. Two animals originally painted in bright colors. Okay. On the rooftop terrace. Okay. You going to have a look? Okay. There’s the village there. Here’s the mound and the church. The founder of Bluetooth. The name Bluetooth lives on. First letter of Harold and the first letter of Bluetooth make it very recognizable. It was just sort of like a temporary name, wasn’t it, to begin with? And then they thought, “Oh, no. We’ll stick with it.” Village just by the side of it as well. We’re just going to explore the church. It’s just starting to rain a little bit now. But uh we’ll take the dogs out for a walk after we’ve been around the church, but you can see the palisades all around there. Really nice graveyard here. Look at this. Yeah. Beautiful. There’s two mounds. We’ll have a look up those a little bit later. North and the south mound. Someone’s inscribed with ruins. Okay. Special occasions. 2 and a half meters tall on the other side. There’s three sides to it, isn’t it? Yes. Is this This is the side with the writing on it. So, identifies uh King King Gorm. Uh, no. This is Harold Bluetooth. Harold Bluetooth. Because the top bit there is says Harold. Yeah. And then for down there somewhere it says Denmark. Denmark. Yeah. The unusual thing about this was it was written across, wasn’t it? Yeah. And Gor the olds one is written down which is the other stone here downwards. Okay. A ship hanger in the air leg there. Oh, look at this. This is very unusual, isn’t it? A beautiful church. experience there. Very uh plain white walls. Three kings. This one, this one’s even got a tree. Trees in them. Yeah. Tree in it. In 1933. 1897 and 2006 at Palisade. We’re represented by these markers here. You want to take a picture? It’s quite tall. Right, Pops? Do you want to go and look around the mound? Then Bobb’s off. Go on, Puppy. Let’s show you the historical delight. Can you see? Oops. Not much. Go around. Puppy can’t go in the museum. Right. She do all right on those steps then. Yeah. Yeah. She enjoyed it, didn’t you? Pups. Blime me, Poppy. Take your take your time. You wait there. Wait, Poppy. Wait. You’re at the top then, pups. Yeah. What do you reckon, Pups? It’s quite a view, isn’t it? Yeah. So, this is the southern mound. It’s the largest of the two mounds at Yelling, and it’s the largest man-made mound from the Viking age. It was constructed with no burial chamber. Uh they’ve did a a comprehensive excavation in in 1941 during which they took out 135,000 wheelbarrows full of soil without finding anything. Had a small staircase on its western side added on the occasion of a visit from King Frederick the 7th in 1857. It is reserved for use by royalty only. There you are, Pops. And you can see we’ve still got the uh where the palisade was all the way around. I think we just came just in time. Go on. Go on. Slippy. Got a bell. Yeah. Here’s the northern mound. Church again. And there’s the southern mound. We’re have to climb up the uh northern mound now. Go on then. There you go. See if we can catch Sue up. Go on. Go on. Come on. We got to stand. Lovely tree in the middle. That’s lovely. Look at that. A better view from this m said here in the exact center of Harold’s complex stands the northern mound. It’s 8 and a half meters tall and 65 m wide. In 1520 a burial chamber was discovered inside the mound. Constructed in the middle of the 10th century grave contained a number of valuable objects including the small yelling cup. However, there were no skeletons found the body have been moved elsewhere and buried again. It could be could it be that King G was moved from within the mound to the grave within the church. Can you see? See a cat and kids running. Much much more to take photos of. Oh, here goes the church bell. I think there’s a wedding going on now. Yeah. Lovely. Go on then, P. Bobby, wait. Bobby, wait for me. Please step again. Yeah, there. Okay. Wait. It’s saying that there were several houses along the length of the palisade which are marked out with white concrete markers. Yeah. But uh over here somewhere is the uh markings of a stone ship and it was the ship on which the dead could sail to meet the gods in Valhalla. Here’s the marking on the map. So here’s the gate, the northern gate. This is the point of the stone ship. According to Norse mythology, the dead would go to meet the gods in Valhalla. This is the largest uh stone ship ever found in the world. Yeah. I mean obviously it was a an area where people would be buried because in Norse mythology they needed to sail on a ship to Valhalla. So this is is the largest in the world. 350 m long the ship was Yeah. What they think we’ve got here are the remains of one of the long houses that were found along here. Viking long houses. I think these would be the stones where they found it. And this marks the outline of the houses with the different rooms in it. There’s no board to explain it, but I imagine that’s what it is. It shows long houses here and just over there. I mean, the weather’s not been brilliant today, but this is absolutely fascinating. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage site, as we said earlier, and um what they found here was quite amazing. I’m just saying that the the stone ship there actually contained the burial mound, didn’t it? Cuz that was on the on the stone burial ship. Seems an appropriate place to end this uh video. It’s the other end of the of the stone ship. Yeah. Really enjoyed our little visit here, walking around the outside of it. We’re going to explore the little village and uh I think Sue will do a bit of shopping. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I’m going to have a look. Yeah. No, it’s been interesting. All right, folks. We’re here. Have a look up here right by right by the shore. Oh, wow.

We visit Kongernes Jelling, home of the Viking Kings in the middle of the monument complex around Jelling Church. Viking Age monuments, including runic stones, a church, and large mounds. The site is a UNESCO site.

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