The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

The prevailing view was that these burial mounds belonged to political or religious elite families, but new DNA data questioned this assumption, according to Live Science. Neil Carlin suggests ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England ... there is a description of the burial of one Scyld Scefing, an ancestor of the Danish royal family. According to the poem, Scyld is laid ...

The wooded burial mound is the largest of 49 sites that were included in UNESCO’s World Heritage list in 2019. The mounds were all constructed between the late fourth century and late fifth ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...