Denmark Archive
Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Brothers and sisters can love or hate each other. Siblings can also be rivals, which was by no means uncommon in the ancient
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The story of Alwilda sounds more like a fairytale, and truth to be told; it's difficult to determine whether the account is based
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Christmas is one of the greatest celebrations in the Christian calendar. We dress Christmas tree, eat and surprise each other with gifts. For many
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An amateur archaeologist in Denmark has discovered an extraordinary relic. While searching a field at Hodde, near Varde in western Jutland, he found an
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Civilizations
David Tee - AncientPages.com - The name may bring fear to many, as this ancient society is forever linked with those who cause destruction to property - vandals, and
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - An amateur archaeologist has discovered a spectacular ancient gold treasure. The Hjarnø treasure consists of over 32 pieces of jewelry including gold and pearls, dating 1,500 years.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1375, King Valdemar IV Atterdag was put to rest in Vordingborg, Denmark’s’ the biggest royal castle. For over 600 years scientists and historians
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An extraordinary Viking treasure connected to King Harald Bluetooth has been found on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea in northern Germany.
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The Völuspá, the first poem in the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda, is one of the most outstanding literary achievements in the
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Several Norse runes mention a group of unknown warriors named Kylfings. According to scholars, the Kylfings may have been members of the Varangian Guard, but who
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Sun Chariot - now in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen - was found in September 1902 in a
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Artifacts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The mysterious Bronze Age Viksö helmets with horns were discovered in southern Scandinavia. Due to their impractical size and shape, these ancient helmets were
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - More than 300 small rocks - dubbed by archaeologists as 'sun stones’ - carved in the Stone Age, were recently excavated in Vasagård in southern Bornholm, Denmark. Why
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Like many other ancient civilizations, Vikings had very several interesting burial customs. Some Vikings' burial traditions are understood, but there are also certain
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - On July 22, 1361, death came to Gotland, an island in Sweden. Locals heard rumors King Valdemar IV Atterdag and his powerful Danish fleet
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - A Völva in Norse mythology was someone everyone feared, even the gods. She was a powerful female shaman and seer, but was she only a
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Vikings used wooden longships or dragonships with wide, shallow-draft hulls, allowing navigation in rough seas or in shallow river waters. Their ships
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Several chamber-graves have been unearthed in the hamlet of Hørning near Skanderborg in Jutland, Denmark. “The artefacts that we’ve already found are exquisite gilded fittings from a
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - It took many years before scientists could finally determine the age and identity of a bog body discovered in 1938 west of Silkeborg, Denmark. Many of the
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Nearly 40 graves of men, women and children buried at the ancient graveyard, at the Norre Sandegard Vest site, Danish island of Bornholm. The discovery was made
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - It’s a truly extraordinary discovery. Archaeologists are even slightly shocked. They have found traces of a 1,300-year-old Viking tower. It has long been believed Vikings never constructed
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A large tomb of the famous Viking chief, Ulv Galiciefarer, may have been discovered in northern Jutland, Denmark. For now, it is perhaps too soon to say
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Unlike many other ancient civilizations, Vikings never worshipped cats, but these wonderful animals had a special place in Viking society. Vikings used to
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1879, the body of a woman was found by workers digging peat turfs at Huldremose, Denmark. Examination of the body revealed the woman
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists in Denmark have made a very rare discovery. In Ågård, an important settlement during the Viking Age, researchers found a buckle depicting Norse God Loki. The
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Ancient History Facts
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Vikings’ success in reaching distant lands lies in their remarkable longships. The Vikings’ ships were the European Dark Ages' greatest technical and artistic
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Lindholm Høje is an Iron Age and Viking Age burial site just North of Aalborg and Nørresundby on the South slope of Voerbjerg Hill
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Historical Figures
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Palnatoke was a legendary Danish hero and chieftain of the Island of Fyn. According to the Jómsvíkinga saga, Palnatoke founded the Brotherhood of Jomsvikings and established
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Once a political and military center of power and legendary kings, Vordingborg is an impressive castle in Denmark located on the southern coast of Zealand facing
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News
AncientPages.com - On June 1, 1676, a dramatic naval Battle of Öland was fought between the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea and an allied Danish-Dutch fleet. Just
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Featured Stories
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Holger Danske, also called Holger or Ogier the Dane, was a fearsome Viking warrior. His entire life, from birth to death, is shrouded
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AncientPages.com - Forensic experts from Denmark and Norway have opened a sarcophagus containing the remains of descendants of Viking ruler Rollo in Normandy, France. DNA studies will hopefully once
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from Moesgaard Museum have discovered an unusually complete and well-preserved Iron Age find near Skødstrup just north of Aarhus. Several bogs containing sacrificial offerings have been found
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists begin to uncover secrets of a Viking Age circular fortress discovered a year ago. It's the first Viking Age fortress found in Denmark for the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Harald Bluetooth was the younger son of Gorm the Old and Queen Thyra. Harald Bluetooth, fresco from the 1500s in Roskilde Cathedral, Zealand,
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