Royalty and runestones

A quaint little town visited by more than 150,000 tourists annually, and not without reason. Jelling boasts some of Europe’s most prominent Viking Age monuments, which in 1994 were included in the UNE...

Jelling Church dates back to around 1100 and is the fourth church on the site. The first was a wooden church erected in the eighth century by Harald Bluetooth as a mausoleum to his father, Gorm the Ol...

Royal Jelling - Kongernes Jelling - is a visitor’s centre under the auspices of the National Museum of Denmark. The centre relates the story of the Jelling Monuments, created by Viking-age King Gorm t...

Jelling is home to Europe’s finest Viking-Age monuments: Denmark’s two largest grave mounds and two runic stones erected by the kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in the eighth century. In 1994, ...

In Ravning Enge, you will find a reconstruction of two pier heads from the mighty bridge established by Harald Bluetooth across Vejle river valley in the year 979. The bridge was 760 ms long and ...

The Viking Market at the Jelling Mounds features a wide range of inspiring craft workshops, market stalls and Viking horse riding shows. So come and try out your skills as a smithy, baker, archer, or ...