🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Borremose
Borremose is a raised bog in central Himmerland, Denmark south east of the town of Aars. The name translates directly as 'Borre'-bog, where 'Borre' might well be a derivation of the old word burgh…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Ribe Viking Market — Jutland
Viking Age (Early, c.710–850 CE core; medieval to 1700) · Danish Viking (Merovingian–Carolingian contact)
Ribe, founded c.710 CE on a terp above the Ribe Å wadden marsh, is Denmark's oldest town, a 13-hectare planned market grid of north–south plots along the river where artisans produced glass beads,…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Dankirke
Dankirke was a Danish Iron Age settlement in south-west Jutland, located near the later town of Ribe. It was divided into East Dankirke and West Dankirke.