Image Map DK Lejre.PNG 200px thumb right Map of Lejre municipality this map shows the municipality created in 2007 Lejre is a town with a population of 2,330 1 January 2010 ref http www.statistikbanken.dk statbank5a SelectVarVal Define.asp?Maintable BEF44&PLanguage 1 BEF44 Population 1st January, by urban areas database from Statistics Denmark ref and a municipality Danish language Danish , Commune subnational entity kommune on the island of Zealand Denmark Zealand in east Denmark . It belongs to Region ... Kommunalreformen The Municipal Reform of 2007 , merging the former Lejre municipality with Bramsn s and Hvals municipalities to form a new Lejre municipality. The former Lejre municipality covered ... to Roskilde County . History Lejre was the capital of an Iron Age kingdom, the Lejre Kingdom ... of medieval Denmark . The legends of the kings of Lejre were written down in the 12th century Chronicon Lethrense . Lejre is assumed to have been the location of Heorot , ref Penguin Classics ... as a sculpture supposed to depict Odin known as the Odin from Lejre . Attractions The municipality is home to the Land of legends Sagnlandet Lejre , a center for experimental archaeology and education ... Lejre brume.jpg Lejre municipality is primarily rural. Image Lejre oliennes.jpg May 2004. Image Ledreborg.jpg Ledreborg palace, 19th century drawing gallery The town of Lejre External links http www.lejre.dk Municipality s official website http www.nylejre.dk The new Lejre municipality s official website Danish only http www.landoflegends.dk Land of legends formerly Lejre Experimental Centre http ... References commons Lejre Kommune Municipal statistics http www2.netborger.dk Kommunefakta NetBorger ... Category Archaeological sites in Denmark Category Viking Age populated places ca Municipi de Lejre da Lejre Kommune de Lejre eo Lejre fo Lejre kommuna fr Lejre id Munisipalitas Lejre it Lejre nl Lejre gemeente no Lejre kommune nds Kommun Lejre pl Gmina Lejre pt Lejre ru sv Lejre kommun ... more details
File Jernalderlandsbyen i Lejre Fors gscenter.jpg thumb Lejre Experimental Centre The Land of Legends, Centre for Historical Archaeological Research and Communication in Danish Sagnlandet Lejre and formerly known as Lejre Experimental Centre is a 106 acre 43 hectare archaeological open air museum situated in the Lejre Municipality , few kilometres west of Roskilde Denmark . It was founded in 1964 by ethnologist Hans Ole Hansen . The Land of Legends comprises reconstructions of an Iron Age village and sacrificial bog 200 BC to 200 AD , a Viking market place 900 AD , a Stone Age camp site 5000 BC , a 18th century farmstead and various grave monuments. The historical artisan workshops the pottery, the weaver s workshop, the smithy work to reproduce pre historical handicraft. Gardens, pastures and fields are the natural scenario of activities and reconstructions. At The Land of Legends Lejre, the activities for the public are based on knowledge of past techniques, archaeological evidence and historical documents. Each summer many every day families spend a week of their holidays in the Iron Age village, the farm cottages and the Stone Age camp site. They dress in epoch dresses and have the role of peopling the reconstructed areas, while trying to live as in the past. Many archaeologists from all over the world come to the Land of Legends to perform their experiments, dealing with a broad variety of subjects and artifacts. The Land of legends has, for example, several times supported ... 55.000 tourists and school children visit Lejre each year. External links http www.landoflegends.dk www.landoflegends.dk English.1192.0.html, the home page of The Land of Legends Lejre http www.allscandinavia.com lejre.htm Lejre, at All Scandinavia coord 55 36 57 N 11 56 38 E region DK type landmark ... in Denmark Category Museums in Denmark da Sagnlandet Lejre de Land der Legenden pl Centrum Do wiadczalne w Lejre ... more details
File Odin from Lejre.jpg 200px right thumb Odin from Lejre approx 900 AD Lejre excavations, September 2009 Odin from Lejre is a small cast silver figurine from approximately 900 C.E., showing a person sitting on a throne. The figurine has inlay of black niello black coloured alloy and some gilding. ref name Lauritsen ref name Roskilde http www.roskildemuseum.dk Default.aspx?ID 310 Odin fra Lejre on Roskilde Museum website Danish . ref The height is 18 mm and the weight is 9 grams. ref name Roskildemore http www.roskildemuseum.dk Default.aspx?ID 306 further information page on Roskilde Museum website Danish . ref The figurine was found by local amateur archaeologist Tommy Olesen on September 2, 2009, during Roskilde Museum s excavations at the small village of Gammel Lejre Old Lejre , near the modern town of Lejre . ref name Lauritsen Louise Lauritsen, http roskilde.lokalavisen.dk et unikt fund af odin fra lejre 20091113 artikler 711139709 Et unikt fund af Odin fra Lejre , Roskilde Avis , November 13, 2009 Danish ref in Denmark . The figurine was unveiled at the Roskilde Museum on November 13, 2009, and is now part of the permanent exhibition. The person on the throne wears a floor length dress, an apron, four bead necklaces, a neck ring, a cloak and a rim less hat. Two birds are seated on the armrests and the back of the throne shows the heads of two animals. It has been a matter of dispute whom the person on the throne is intended to depict. The excavator interpreted it as Odin , the chief god in Norse paganism and the ruler of Asgard , sitting on his throne Hlidskjalf ..., Lejre was reported to be the site of sacrifices to Odin held every ninth year during the Viking ... from Lejre a unique find at Roskilde Museum Official release from the Roskilde Museum website in English DEFAULTSORT Odin From Lejre Category Norse mythology Category Archaeology of Denmark Category Viking Age als Odin von Lejre da Odin fra Lejre sv Oden fr n Lejre ... more details
Orphan date January 2011 m is a village with a population of 477 1st January 2010 ref http www.statistikbanken.dk statbank5a SelectVarVal Define.asp?Maintable BEF44&PLanguage 1 BEF44 Population 1st January, by urban areas database from Statistics Denmark ref in Lejre Municipality, located six kilometers southwest of Roskilde . Attractions The m J ttestue, or passage grave , is situated between Lejre and m, around 10 km. south west of Roskilde . Sources reflist coord 55 36 N 12 01 E display title region DK type city source GNS enwiki DEFAULTSORT Om Village Category Cities and towns in Region Zealand Denmark geo stub da m landsby nl m ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2010 distinguish Metropolitan Copenhagen The Copenhagen metropolitan area around the city of Copenhagen , Denmark , has a population of 1,834,492 and an area of 2,861.41 km Composition The area consists of class wikitable Municipality Population Area br km Pop. density br km sup align right align left Copenhagen Municipality 503,699 88.25 5,707 align right align left Copenhagen County 618,518 525.95 1,170 align right align left Frederiksborg County 378,686 1,347 276 align right align left Roskilde County 241,523 891.44 265 align right align left Frederiksberg 92,234 8.77 10,516 align right align left Total 1,834,492 2,861.41 641.1 Due to the municipality reform of Denmark 1st January 2007 when the Danish counties were abolished, Copenhagen metropolitan area now consists of the Capital Region of Denmark Capital Region except Bornholm , the municipalities of Greve Municipality Greve , K ge Municipality K ge , Lejre Municipality Lejre , Roskilde Municipality Roskilde and Solr d Municipality Solr d in the former Roskilde County and also Stevns Municipality . See also Metropolitan Copenhagen coord missing Denmark Denmark geo stub Category Metropolitan Copenhagen Category Metropolitan areas of Denmark Category Geography of Copenhagen Metropolitan area ... more details
Osted is a town with a population of 2,086 1st January 2010 ref http www.statistikbanken.dk statbank5a SelectVarVal Define.asp?Maintable BEF44&PLanguage 1 BEF44 Population 1st January, by urban areas database from Statistics Denmark ref in Lejre Municipality , Region Zealand , Denmark . The town is located at the road between the cities of Roskilde and Ringsted . The Danish jazz bassist Niels Henning rsted Pedersen NH P 1946 2005 was born in Osted. References references Coord 55 34 N 11 58 E region DK type city display title Category Cities and towns in Region Zealand da Osted nl Osted ... more details
Until January 1, 2007, Bramsn s was a municipality Danish language Danish , Commune subnational entity kommune in Roskilde county Roskilde County on the island of Zealand Denmark Zealand in east Denmark . The municipality, lying between Roskilde Fjord and Isefjord , covered an area of 80 km , and had a total population of 9,391 2005 . Its last mayor was Flemming Jensen, a member of the Venstre Denmark Venstre Liberal Party Politics of Denmark political party . The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Kirke Hyllinge . To the east is Roskilde Fjord and to the west is Isefjord. The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform Municipality Reform that combined the following parish es Gersh j, Hyllinge, Lyndby, Rye, Sonnerup, and S by parish. Bramsn s municipality ceased to exist as the result of Municipalities of Denmark Municipal Reform 2007 Kommunalreformen The Municipality Reform of 2007 . It was be merged with Hvals and Lejre municipalities to form the new Lejre municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 240 km and a total population of 25,971 2005 . The new municipality belongs to the Region Sj lland Zealand Region . External links http www.lejre.dk Lejre municipality s official website Danish only References Municipal statistics http www2.netborger.dk Kommunefakta NetBorger Kommunefakta , delivered from http www.kmd.dk KMD aka Kommunedata Municipal Data Municipal mergers and neighbors http kommune.eniro.dk region media nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map coord missing Denmark DEFAULTSORT Bramsnaes Category Former municipalities of Denmark da Bramsn s Kommune de Bramsn s Kommune fo Bramsn s kommuna fr Bramsn s it Bramsn s nl Bramsn s no Bramsn s kommune pl Gmina Bramsn s pt Bramsn s sv Bramsn s kommun ... more details
, Holb k and Kalundborg . Hvals will house the municipal council in the new Lejre municipality ... with Bramsn s and Lejre municipalities to form the new Lejre municipality. This created ... Lejre municipality s official website da icon References Reflist Municipal seats of Denmark DEFAULTSORT ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image Johan Ludvig Holstein.jpg thumb Johan Ludvig Image Ledreborg.jpg thumb Ledreborg Palace Johan Ludvig Lensgreve Holstein til Ledreborg 7 September 1694 29 January 1763 was a Minister of State of Denmark Statsminister 12 May 1735 1751 . He was the ancestor of the Holstein Ledreborg family, including Ludvig Holstein Ledreborg and the husband of Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg . In 1739 he built Ledreborg Palace near Lejre , Denmark. DEFAULTSORT Ledreborg, Johan Ludvig Lensgreve Holstein Til Category 1694 births Category 1763 deaths Category Government ministers of Denmark Denmark politician stub da Johan Ludvig Holstein de Johan Ludvig von Holstein nl Johan Ludvig von Holstein pl Johan Ludvig von Holstein sv Johan Ludvig Holstein ... more details
of the Kings of Lejre and http www.northvegr.org lore oldheathen 048.php Northvegr The Saga of Hrolf Kraki The Chronicle of the Kings of Lejre . Category 12th century medieval Latin literature ... more details
Skovbo is a former municipality Danish language Danish , Commune subnational entity kommune in Roskilde county Roskilde County on the island of Zealand Denmark Zealand Sj lland in east Denmark . It covered an area of 132 square kilometre km , and had a total population of 14,873 2005 . Its last mayor was Ole Hansen, a member of the Venstre Denmark Venstre Liberal Party Politics of Denmark political party . The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Borup, K ge Municipality Borup . Neighboring municipalities were K ge Municipality K ge to the east, Solr d , Rams , Lejre Municipality Lejre , and Hvals to the north, and Ringsted municipality Ringsted and Haslev municipality Haslev to the west. On January 1, 2007 Skovbo municipality, as the result of Municipalities of Denmark Municipal Reform 2007 Kommunalreformen The Municipality Reform of 2007 , merged with the existing municipality of K ge to form the new K ge municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 255 km and a total population of 54,926 2005 . The new municipality belongs to the new Region Sj lland Zealand Region . External links http www.skovbo.dk Official website http www.nykoegekommune.dk The new K ge municipality s official website Danish only References Municipal statistics http www2.netborger.dk Kommunefakta NetBorger Kommunefakta , delivered from http www.kmd.dk KMD aka Kommunedata Municipal Data Municipal mergers and neighbors http kommune.eniro.dk region media nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map Roskilde County coord missing Denmark Category Former municipalities of Denmark Denmark geo stub da Skovbo Kommune de Skovbo Kommune fo Skovbo kommuna fr Skovbo it Skovbo nl Skovbo no Skovbo kommune pl Gmina Skovbo pt Skovbo sv Skovbo kommun ... more details
Age longhouse 28.5 metres long in Fyrkat . Modern scholarship sees the village of Lejre , near Roskilde ... in Hr lf Kraki s saga , and located in Lejre. The medieval chroniclers Saxo Grammaticus and Sven Aggesen already suggested that Lejre was the chief residence of Hro gar s Skj ldung clan called Scylding in the poem . The remains of a Viking hall complex was uncovered southwest of Lejre in 1986 88 ... on Lejre and its role in Beowulf is by Marijane Osborn and John Niles scholar John Niles , Beowulf and Lejre . ref cite book last Osborn first Marijane title Beowulf and Lejre year 2007 publisher Arizona ... more details
Bjarkam l Bjarkem l in modern Norwegian language Norwegian and Danish language Danish is an Old Norse poetry Old Norse poem from around the year 1000 . Only a few lines have survived in the Iceland ic version, the rest is known from Saxo Grammaticus Saxo s version in Latin . The latter consists of 298 hexameter s, and tells the tale of Hr lf Kraki Rolf Krake s downfall at Lejre on the isle of Zealand Sj lland , described in a dialogue between two of Rolf Krake s twelve berserker s, B dvar Bjarki Bodvar Bjarke hence the name of the poem , the most famous warrior at the court of the legendary Danish kings legendary Danish king Rolf Krake, and Hjalte hilt . The poem opens with Hjalte waking up his fellow berserkers, having realized they are under attack. In 1030 , King Olaf II of Norway Olav had the bard Tormod Kolbrunarskald recite the Bjarkam l to rouse his outnumbered army in the morning before the start of the Battle of Stiklestad , according to F stbr ra saga . In Bjarkam l , Rolf Krake has subdued the Sweden Swedes enough to make them pay him tax. Instead, they destroy his court at Lejre with a trick reminding us of Homer s Trojan horse The wagons, bringing the valuables to Lejre, are filled with hidden weapons instead. When the Swedes, led by Hjartvar, arrive at Lejre, they are invited to a party, but unlike the Danes, they make sure to stay sober. Saxo has combined motives from the original Danish poem with motives from the second song in the neid , known as the nyktomakhi , where neas tells Dido about the battle between the Greece Greeks and the Trojans in Troy . The nyktomakhi is of about the same length as Bjarkam l , and containing the same elements The Trojan horse the smuggling of Swedish weapons Danes Trojans are sound asleep when Swedes Greeks attack them plus the climax The god ess Venus informs neas that it is the will of the gods themselves that is, Jupiter mythology Jupiter , Juno , Minerva and Neptune that Troy shall fall, and so he can honoura ... more details
Freawine , Frowin or Frowinus figures as a governor of Schleswig in Gesta Danorum and in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle as an ancestor of the List of monarchs of Wessex kings of Wessex , but the latter source only tells that he was the son of Legendary ancestors of Cerdic of Wessex Frithugar and the father of Ket and Wig Wig . In the Gesta Danorum , Frowin was the father in law of Offa of Angel presented as a prince and later king of Denmark , whose father king Wermund liked both Frowin and his sons Ket and Wig. Frowin was challenged to combat by the Swedish king Eadgils of the Myrgings Athisl , and killed. He would later be avenged by his two sons Ket and Wig. However, the two sons fought against Athisl two against one, a national disgrace that was redeemed by their brother in law Offa, when he killed two Saxons at the same time, in single combat . This event is referred to in Widsith as a duel against Myrgings . References and external links http www.gutenberg.net etext 657 The Anglo Saxon Chronicle at Project Gutenberg Public domain copy. http omacl.org DanishHistory book4.html Book Four of Gesta Danorum at the Online Medieval and Classical Library Peter Tunstall s translation of the Chronicon lethrense at http www.oe.eclipse.co.uk nom lejre.html The Chronicle of the Kings of Lejre . start box succession box title Ancestor of the kings of Wessex years before Frithugar after Ket and Wig Wig end box Category Angles it Freawine ... more details
Hans Peter Christian Denver October 28, 1876 &ndash September 18, 1961 was a Denmark Danish Shooting sports sports shooting shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics . He was born in Osted , Lejre and died in Copenhagen . In 1912 he was a member of the Danish team which finished fifth in the Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics Men s 50 metre team small bore rifle 50 metre team small bore rifle competition . He also participated in the Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics Men s 300 metre free rifle, three positions 300 metre free rifle, three positions event but did not finished the contest. External links http www.sports reference.com olympics athletes de hans denver 1.html profile Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Denver, Hans ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1876 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1961 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Denver, Hans Category 1876 births Category 1961 deaths Category Danish sport shooters Category ISSF rifle shooters Category Olympic shooters of Denmark Category Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics Denmark sport bio stub Sportshooting bio stub ... more details
The Chronicle of the Kings of Lejre and http www.northvegr.org lore oldheathen 048.php Northvegr The Saga of Hrolf Kraki The Chronicle of the Kings of Lejre . http omacl.org DanishHistory book4.html ... more details
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is the son of Ingjald Frodason Ingeld , and the half brother of king Healfdene in Lejre , the father ... of the Kings of Lejre and http www.northvegr.org lore oldheathen 048.php Northvegr The Saga of Hrolf Kraki The Chronicle of the Kings of Lejre . http omacl.org DanishHistory book3.html Book Three ... no R rik av Lejre ru sv Hr rek av Lejre ... more details
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Image S borgSlot.jpg thumb The ruins of S borg Castle in the late 19th century S borg Castle lang da S borg Slot , in its heyday, was the strongest castle in Denmark ,and was also used as a prison Jens Grand was imprisoned here in the 13th century . It was inhabited until the Count s Feud in 1535, when it is speculated that it was destroyed. In 1577, the feudal tenant was granted permission to use the ruins as a quarry. History Image S borgSlot grundplan.png thumb Floor plan S borg Castle is first known from the 12th century, when ownership of the castle passed from the king to the bishop of Roskilde . Traditionally archbishop Eskil of Lund is said to have expanded the previous buildings to a real castle with defensive wall s and a moat . As Eskil was in close contact with Esrum Abbey , it is considered likely that he lived nearby at S borgby. Saxo Grammaticus wrote that Eskil had built a castle in the den lethriske mose , but it is unknown whether that is a reference to S borg ref In her thesis Da Tidernes Herre var n r When the Lords of Time were near Inge Skovgaard Petersen has proposed that den lethriske mose could be the River Lejre Lethra . Incidentally, Ledreborg in Lejre was previously spelled Lethreborg , which is evident from older maps. ref . No one has so far been able to make a clear connection between Eskil and S borg either by archaeological finds or written sources. ref Egevang, Robert og Frandsen, S ren Det ottekantede t rn . Fra Nationalmuseets Arbejdsmark 1985, pp. 73 90. ref Such a connection is therefore an hypothesis only. In 1985, Robert Egevang and S ren Frandsen took the initiative of digging two trenches to make clear the conditions between the octagon tower and the castle proper. A rampart approximately 11 meters wide is the oldest encirclement of the castle. In the rampart, as well as in the octagon tower which was built at the same time, tiles have been found. The excavations show that the castle proper was erected in the late 13th centu ... more details
Eadgils of the Myrgings is a king of the Myrgings a clan of Saxon origin who is mentioned on lines 93 96 in the Anglo Saxon literature Anglo Saxon poem Widsith . He would have lived in the 5th century and is mentioned as the lord of the scop himself in the poem. According to the Old English poem Widsith before Eadgils became king the Myrgings had been at war with a tribe called the Mofdings under the previous king Meaca who was probably killed in battle fighting against them resulting in their defeat and forcing the Myrgings to retreat back to the Eider river where Eadgils probably became king, Following Meaca s death Eadgils became a powerful Myrging king by defeating the Mofdings and plundering the Angles and their lands as he was determined to rule over them, However the Angles forced the Myrgings to flight. No other source remembers the Myrgings as they were probably assimilated to the surrounding Angles and only leaving the slightest of traces, This Eadgils has sometimes been confused with the Swedish king Eadgils who lived almost a century later. Eadgils was at war with the Angles and plundered their lands, He slew Frowinus , the governor of Schleswig . Frowinu s sons Ket and Wig avenged their fathers death by killing Eadgils, but did so by fighting two against one. Because of this Offa of Angel Offa decides to fight two Myrging princes, probably the sons of Eadgils, and slew them after this the Myrgings were successfully conquered by Offa. The slaying of Eadgils is also mentioned in Annales Ryenses and by the Danish historan Svend Aagesen . The latter says that the shameful act of letting two warriors fight at the same time against the Angle king Offa unable to speak when he was young. s start succession box before Meaca title King of the Myrgings after Conquest by Offa of Angel years s end References http www.oe.eclipse.co.uk nom lejre.html The Chronicle of the Kings of Lejre Peter Tunstall s translation. http www.northvegr.org lore angliad 005.php The story ... more details
Lejre Experimental Centre, nowadays Land of legends Sagnlandet Lejre , in Lejre, Denmark . ref ..., this time spending seven months at the Lejre Experimental Centre conducting research into the techniques ... Lejre Land of Legends Home Page , former Lejre Experimental Centre Persondata Metadata see ... more details
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