THE JELLING STONE

THIS DETAIL (below) is a copy from one of two rune stones discovered at Jelling in Jutland, Denmark. The threesided stone was raised by the Danish king Harald Bluetooth in honour of his royal parents over 1,200 years ago. An inscription on one side reads: “King Harald commanded this monument to be made in memory of Gorm his father and in memory of Thyre his mother – that Harald who won the whole of Denmark for himself and made the Danes Christian”. The figure shown here is the earliest Scandinavian image of Jesus Christ – Harald became a Christian around 960 AD.…

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