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Verified viking sites in Denmark · Mysteria

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Verified viking sites in Denmark

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🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith

Jelling Stones

Viking Age (Jelling dynasty) · Viking Age Danes / Jelling dynasty

UNESCO Viking royal complex at Jelling — two mounds, Gorm and Harald Bluetooth runestones (965 CE) and ship outline.

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🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort

Trelleborg Viking Ringfort (Slagelse)

Viking Age (c.980–1000 CE, Harald Bluetooth) · Danish Viking Age

Archetypal Viking ring fortress west of Slagelse on Zealand, 136.5 m diameter circular earthwork with four cardinal gates, internal quadrants with 16 longhouses and outer bailey, built c.980 under…

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🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith

Lindholm Høje

Germanic Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Iron Age Jutland / Viking Danes

Viking-age burial field at Aalborg with 682 graves and stone-ship settings preserved under sand since 1000 CE.

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🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus

Lindholm Høje Burial Field

Iron Age to Viking Age (500–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Viking

Dramatic Viking burial field (700 graves) and Iron Age/Viking settlement on hill overlooking Limfjord at Nørresundby–Aalborg, preserved under windblown sand after 1000 CE abandonment.