Denmark - Jelling
Dinamarca - Jelling
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Jelling is located in Vejle municipality and Region of Southern Denmark. The town is mainly famous for the Jelling stones, national monuments. Until the Municipal Reform of 2007 on 1 January 2007, Jelling was the capital of Jelling municipality. Jelling was also the only town in the former Vejle County headquarters for a bank – Jelling Sparekasse, which had its headquarters in the town until 2007 when it merged with Den Jyske Sparekasse, headquartered in Grindsted. Jelling Sparekasse's slogan was: "If king Gorm was alive today ... we would probably be the country's National Bank." One source at least claims that Jelling was the capital of an ancient kingdom of Denmark that was known as Jellund.
Jelling is an old and important historical town in the history of Denmark. In the Viking Age it served as the royal seat of the first Monarchs of the Kingdom of Denmark. Jelling is the site of a large stone ship and two large burial mounds, the Jelling stones and Jelling Church which are an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994. In the North Mound, built between 958 and 959 CE (possibly for King Gorm of Denmark), an empty burial chamber was found. The South Mound was built around 970 and contains no burial. Beneath the two mounds is a large stone ship from around the end of the 9th century. Between the two mounds stands two rune stones, the Jelling stones. Near the stones, Gorm's son King Harald Bluetooth built a wooden church (965), and beneath it reinterred (965–966) the remains of his father.
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Jelling es una aldea situada en la municipalidad de Vejle, Dinamarca, en la península de Jutlandia. En un principio la capital vikinga de Dinamarca, hoy es una pequeña aldea.
En Jelling se encuentra el túmulo del rey Gorm de Dinamarca y su esposa Thyra, padres del rey Harald I, quien además erigió un monasterio cristiano en el mismo emplazamiento, y que forma parte del conjunto declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por Unesco.1
Harald también erigió las Piedras de Jelling, en las que figuraba la siguiente inscripción: “El Rey Harald ordenó construir este monumento en honor a Gorm, su padre, y a Thyra, su madre; el mismo Harald que para sí conquistó toda Dinamarca y Noruega, y a los daneses hizo cristianos.”
Esta declaración es conocida como el Bautismo de Dinamarca. Las Piedras de Jelling son consideradas las inscripciones rúnicas en piedra más famosas de Dinamarca.
Denmark - Jelling
Dinamarca - Jelling
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Jelling is located in Vejle municipality and Region of Southern Denmark. The town is mainly famous for the Jelling stones, national monuments. Until the Municipal Reform of 2007 on 1 January 2007, Jelling was the capital of Jelling municipality. Jelling was also the only town in the former Vejle County headquarters for a bank – Jelling Sparekasse, which had its headquarters in the town until 2007 when it merged with Den Jyske Sparekasse, headquartered in Grindsted. Jelling Sparekasse's slogan was: "If king Gorm was alive today ... we would probably be the country's National Bank." One source at least claims that Jelling was the capital of an ancient kingdom of Denmark that was known as Jellund.
Jelling is an old and important historical town in the history of Denmark. In the Viking Age it served as the royal seat of the first Monarchs of the Kingdom of Denmark. Jelling is the site of a large stone ship and two large burial mounds, the Jelling stones and Jelling Church which are an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994. In the North Mound, built between 958 and 959 CE (possibly for King Gorm of Denmark), an empty burial chamber was found. The South Mound was built around 970 and contains no burial. Beneath the two mounds is a large stone ship from around the end of the 9th century. Between the two mounds stands two rune stones, the Jelling stones. Near the stones, Gorm's son King Harald Bluetooth built a wooden church (965), and beneath it reinterred (965–966) the remains of his father.
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ESPAÑOL:
Jelling es una aldea situada en la municipalidad de Vejle, Dinamarca, en la península de Jutlandia. En un principio la capital vikinga de Dinamarca, hoy es una pequeña aldea.
En Jelling se encuentra el túmulo del rey Gorm de Dinamarca y su esposa Thyra, padres del rey Harald I, quien además erigió un monasterio cristiano en el mismo emplazamiento, y que forma parte del conjunto declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por Unesco.1
Harald también erigió las Piedras de Jelling, en las que figuraba la siguiente inscripción: “El Rey Harald ordenó construir este monumento en honor a Gorm, su padre, y a Thyra, su madre; el mismo Harald que para sí conquistó toda Dinamarca y Noruega, y a los daneses hizo cristianos.”
Esta declaración es conocida como el Bautismo de Dinamarca. Las Piedras de Jelling son consideradas las inscripciones rúnicas en piedra más famosas de Dinamarca.