Historic Viking Stone Tablets, Jelling, Denmark

Jelling Viking Rune Stone segment from "Vikings, Tivoli, and Trolls", the Intrepid Berkeley Explorer's new free video presenting highlights of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Starring Copenhagen's colorful Nyhavn Canal, entertainment at the Tivoli amusement park; Stockholm's Vasa, a huge Swedish warship that sank in 1628; Norway's scenic fjords, waterfalls, Trolls, and the Viking Ship Museum, plus much more. With historic houses and digital effects. To enjoy all of this 25 minute video, please ask a search engine for:
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[FrederikBosch]

@drummaryan No you dont, for christ sake, do you even know how many danes are called Rasmussen for their last name?

[skbadsberg]

@drummaryan yeah right Harold Bluetooth lived over a thousind years ago, there is no way u know that...

[drummaryan]

My family ancestry goes straight back to king harold. A.K.A. "king Bluetooth." My grandfather's last name is Rasmussen, It's cool to see things my ancestors did :)

[Zakopane20004]

See my video about Jellingestenen and runes: "Runes in Denmark and Jellingestenen a part of Danish history"

[adamukrop]

hi! im very interested in rune stones and skripts. Im traveling around scandinavia to see all of them. I have seen all 2500 rune stones in Sweden and soon im going to Denmark to see all the stones wich are located in Denmark. So could you give me any informacion about it. I need a Danish map with all the locations of rune stones in Denmark. Any informacion would be usefull.

[juhler]

Ya not really into the history here man - hahaha make a Video and you dont really get it - His name was HARALD - NOT Eric - Eirc was the guy who came to Vinland and Greenland - Harald was the son of Gorm the Sleepy and Thyraé - !!

[vanefreja]

His name is Harald....not Eric.....

the stones are starting to ...crack(?)because of weather conditions and such....

it has been reported to UNESCO world heritage..

[Thrym865]

And by the way, Harald was not called "Bluetooth" but "the good". Bluetooth is a name given by later historians and is probably due to a bad translation. Popular history thinks this name was about a bad or missing tooth since the vikings did not differentiate between blue and black. In fact they called the native Africans bluemen (and native American indians were called scraelings).

[Thrym865]

The small Jelling stone (the oldest of the 2 stones) reads "kurmr kunuk karthi kubl thusi aft thurui kunu sina tanmarkar but". This translates into "kurmr (gorm) king made ornaments these after thurui (thyra) wife his tanmarkar (denmarks) pride. The word "but" has never been properly confirmed but is believed to mean pride although it could mean other things.

[Thrym865]

The large Jelling stone reads "haraltr kunukr bath kaurua kubl thausi aft kurm fathur sin auk aft thaurui muthur sina sa haraltr ias sar uan tanmaurk ala auk nuruiak auk tani karthi kristna". This translates into "haraltr (harald) king asked done ornaments these after kurm (gorm) father his and after thaurui (thyra) mother his that haraltr as himself won tanmaurk (denmark) all and nuruiak (norway) and tani (the danes) made christian.