Jelling Heritage Site
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How it came to be
Jelling in central Jutland, Denmark, was a royal monument in the 10th century, under King Gorm and his son Harald Bluetooth. Two flat-topped mounds stand here, each about 70 metres across and up to 11 metres high; the northern one, raised over a Bronze Age barrow, holds an oak burial chamber.
The smaller runestone reads: King Gorm made this monument to his wife Thyra. The larger stone, set between the mounds, was raised by Harald for his parents and says he won Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian. Its carving of Christ is the earliest in Scandinavia, linked to the conversion of 953-965, and in the 1930s an art historian called it Denmark's baptismal certificate.
The church stands on the site of at least three earlier wooden churches, all destroyed by fire. Excavations in 2006 revealed a palisade around the monument and part of a ship-shaped stone setting. Jelling was inscribed in 1994.
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