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Dec 15, 2015 · Today, the meaning of the Danish word “lejr” is still “camp-site” (spejderlejr= scout-camp). It is located on a hilly stretch lying to the west of two small rivers and with an old road running along the riverbed. It was populated in the Bronze Age as indicated by several barrows.
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Apr 27, 2019 · The largest Viking hall discovered in Denmark. In News by SkjaldenApril 27, 2019. In 2009, on a field in the town of Gl. Lejre (Old Lejre) on the island of Zealand, the remains of one of the largest Viking halls that ever has been built in Denmark was discovered. This Viking hall originally had a length of a little over 60 meters, and 12 meters ...
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Beowulf and Lejre. On the basis of legendary analogues, specialists in the Old English poem Beowulf have long inferred that the action of the main part of that poem is situated at the village of Gammel Lejre on the island of Zealand, Denmark. Archaeological excavations undertaken from 1986 to 1988 under the direction of Tom Christensen of ...
Lejre Beyond Legend - The Archaeological Evidence by TOM CHRISTENSEN LEJRE IN MYTH, LEGEND, AND HISTORY Lejre is a small village at the bottom of Roskilde Fjord (fig. 4). The name which derives from the gothic or Old Danish Hleiqrar (meaning "the place with the tents or the huts") U"rgensen 1981), has played a central part in
Oct 9, 2019 · He was laid to rest together with a 25 – 40-year-old man. The impressive stone ship (80 – 100 metre long) nearby has been dated to the 10th century. The hall itself changed slightly. Now the architecture became reminiscent of the last great halls of the “Trelleborg-Type” and got a new internal partitioning.
Lejre Museum is situated in the middle of a hilly, historic natural landscape. Lejre Museum is located in Gammel Lejre, about 10km west of Roskilde, in the middle of one of the Danish Viking period’s most important areas. At this location – according to medieval chronicles and sagas – the story of the kingdom of Denmark began.
Introduction. Lejre is the name of a small village some ten kilometres southwest of Roskilde on the Island of Sealand The small settlement played an important part in the cycle of legends around the oldest Danish history. Saxo Grammaticus and Sven Aggesen, both Danish mediaeval chroniclers, as well as the Norse sagas placed the residence of the ...
