Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church

World Heritage

Denmark

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The Jelling tombs and one of the runic stelae are typical representatives of Nordic pagan culture, while the other runic stelae and the church reflect the Christianization of the Danish people in the mid-10th century.

# Nordic pagan culture

Jelling stones, in their glass casing (2012)

The heritage site in 2004, Runestones are in the foreground in the background is one of two mounds...

Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church 8

side A

side A (see image of transcribed runes)

Interior of Jelling Church, showing frescos dating from 1125

Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church 9

The heritage site in 2004, Runestones are in the foreground; in the background is one of two mounds...

The 1936 sign next to the Utrecht stone with the original runes, transliteration and Dutch translati...

Jelling Church

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Information extracted from Wikidata

Commons category	Jelling Runestones
has part	Harald's runestone
coordinate location	Point(9.4196 55.75657)
start time	1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
mapping relation type	exact match
Atlas Obscura identifier	jelling-viking-monuments
country	Denmark
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Runenstenen%20Jelling.jpg
quantity	2
executive body	Jelling Runestones
ELSTAT geographical code	jelling-viking-monuments
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/02xm66
location	Jelling

image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Runesten%20i%20Jelling.jpg
point in time	2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
media legend	Jelling stones in their glass casing (2012)