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The Vikings
 In Denmark you will find many interesting viking sites carefully preserved to give you an authentic experience of how life was like in the Viking Age.
The Danes became most notorious as the Vikings who plundered churches and monasteries, but behind this rather one-sided picture there lies a far more complex interplay of political and cultural factors.
Read about the real vikings
Tour suggestion
 A journey back to the time of the Vikings is an excursion to some of the most beautiful parts of the country. These are areas where man has left nature to itself and this has preserved intact many historical monuments, which date back to Viking times. In these surroundings it is easy to let your imagination get the better of you and imagine their expeditions and way of life.
Travel in the footsteps of the Vikings
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The Jelling StoneThe huge Jelling Stone is sometimes referred to as Denmark's birth certificate. Harald Bluetooth (d. 987) had a runic inscription carved into the side of the stone in memory of the fact that he ’made the Danes Christians’. The Royal Jelling Stone
Trelleborg
The Viking fort at Trelleborg, dated to around 980, lies near Slagelse on a promontory between two rivers. The fort has a diameter of 156 m. Read more about Trelleborg
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