Interesting burial mound. Denmark has mounds going back over 5 thousand years. Here in North America mounds started to spring-up thousands of years later in the midwest. This could be another connection Native American tribes had with Norsemen. There are rune stones & some Norse culture is found in Native tribes of the NorthEast & MidWest.
JessyLovesMcr is my daughter's account lol I didn't realize she was logged in. She's never been to Denmark...yet. I hope to take her to visit some of her family she has yet to meet. Again, great clip.
I've been there a few times as a child. I have been reading in some Danish online news that the stones are in jeopardy now. Have they made any progress in saving the stones? Great clip btw, I love learning about my ancestors.
Im danish and I have seen this stone many times... It is really just a stone, the story I have heard a billion times - I don't really think it is exciting anymore. So I can not understand why people all the way from japan (sometimes) travel all the way to jelling just to look at a stone :)
thank you for your comments. You are absolutely right, it's just a stone and nothing more. But many people (me too) don't share your opinion. Jelling with it's church, the rune stones and burial mounts is a place of history, a place which documents the beginning of Denmark and its monarchy. And history is quite important for trying to answer the questions "what we are" and "who we are".
Each nation needs identity. And jelling is such a place for giving identity.
and what about Stonehenge or Ales stenar? Why are these places visited by more than hundred thousand people every year? There are only stones in a circle or in form of a ship. I like these places where the spirit of our ancestors is still alive.
A shame that someone painted grafitti on the big one yesterday!!!!
vanefreja86 1 year ago
Interesting burial mound. Denmark has mounds going back over 5 thousand years. Here in North America mounds started to spring-up thousands of years later in the midwest. This could be another connection Native American tribes had with Norsemen. There are rune stones & some Norse culture is found in Native tribes of the NorthEast & MidWest.
I enjoy the connections.
Thank you for the video!!!
bb10cali 2 years ago
I am a dane, and i don't think that the native tribes learned or stuted my ancestors.
foresthousebridge 2 years ago
JessyLovesMcr is my daughter's account lol I didn't realize she was logged in. She's never been to Denmark...yet. I hope to take her to visit some of her family she has yet to meet. Again, great clip.
rayne68 3 years ago
I've been there a few times as a child. I have been reading in some Danish online news that the stones are in jeopardy now. Have they made any progress in saving the stones? Great clip btw, I love learning about my ancestors.
JessyLovesMcr 3 years ago
Im danish and I have seen this stone many times... It is really just a stone, the story I have heard a billion times - I don't really think it is exciting anymore. So I can not understand why people all the way from japan (sometimes) travel all the way to jelling just to look at a stone :)
singular23 3 years ago
Hi sigular23,
thank you for your comments. You are absolutely right, it's just a stone and nothing more. But many people (me too) don't share your opinion. Jelling with it's church, the rune stones and burial mounts is a place of history, a place which documents the beginning of Denmark and its monarchy. And history is quite important for trying to answer the questions "what we are" and "who we are".
Each nation needs identity. And jelling is such a place for giving identity.
EPV2000 3 years ago 2
EPV2000, i couldn't agree with you more.
Eirikursson 3 years ago
Hi Eirikursson,
and what about Stonehenge or Ales stenar? Why are these places visited by more than hundred thousand people every year? There are only stones in a circle or in form of a ship. I like these places where the spirit of our ancestors is still alive.
EPV2000 3 years ago
Ales stenar is much older then the runestone in this video.
joonte1010 2 years ago
espero algun dia visitar jelling ,se ve muy lindo ,la tierra de los maravillosos vikingos
chikatiloblood 3 years ago
Neat..I'd love to visit
nyprincess10001 4 years ago
I have read about this before, but never seen it yet :) Thank you very much :)
Finwaell 4 years ago
thank you for posting this. simply fascinating
gswarner 4 years ago
Hi gswarner, thank you for your comment. Well, this video is only a short clip from my documentary film "From Friesland To Djursland".
EPV2000 4 years ago