In album: Harvard in Scandinavia: June 23-26, 2008 (Aarhus, Jelling & Fyrkat)

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Please note that all descriptions which present factual information are based on a lecture given at the sites shown by Else Roesdahl on June 25, 2008.

HSS 6.25.08 - Jelling, Fyrkat & Limfjord - 057

HSS 6.25.08 - Jelling, Fyrkat & Limfjord - 057 Harvard in Scandinavia: June 23-26, 2008 (Aarhus, Jelling & Fyrkat)
A painted reconstruction of Face 1 of the Jelling Stone, bearing the bulk of the inscription, which reads in its entirety; "King Harold ordered this monument made in memory of Gorm, his father, and in memory of Thyra, his mother, that Harold who won for himself all of Denmark [Face 2] and Norway [Face 3] and made the Danes Christian."

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