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The Jellinge style is named after the animal ornament on a small cup found in the royal burial mound at Jellinge, Denmark. This mound is thought to be the burial of King Gorm, in which case it would date to AD 958/9. The Jellinge style does not use the “gripping beast” motif.
Jellinge Style Gorm's Cup, from the barrow of Gorm the Old at Jelling. The Jellinge Style is a phase of Scandinavian animal art during the 10th century. The style is characterized by markedly stylized and often band-shaped bodies of animals.
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Jellinge style. Sitting chronologically between the Borre style and the soon-to-be-discussed Mammen style, the Jellinge style is a malleable one. It appears on a diverse body of objects and can share features with the previous and subsequent styles, leaving it difficult to define as a separate movement.
About Jelling. By Magnus Petersen, 1871. The monuments in Jelling – the two rune stones, the North and South Mounds and Jelling Church – were added to UNESCO’s list of monuments of the world which are most worthy of preservation in 1994. Archaeologists, historians and many others have searched for answers to the mysteries of the royal ...
An art style that takes its name from the Viking site at Jellinge. Much Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian art from the 9th century until the mid-11th century is characterized by animal ornament and zoomorphic motifs, which are usually disjointed, stylized, and abstract.
The Royal Danish Necropolis at Jelling. This site in Jutland is one of the most important monuments of the Viking Age. At the centre of the site is a medieval stone church which stands on the site of the church built by King Harald Bluetooth in the 960’s. Two rune-stones stand in front of the church and contain important information about the ...
Here, stands the symbol of the founding of the Danish nation. Here, the change from a Nordic pagan society to an European civilisationis marked out. The Danish nation was born and created in Jelling and in 1994 the Jelling Monuments were put on UNESCO's World Heritage List. There is no similar monument to be found anywhere else in the World.
