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Jutland - Summer 2003: Vikings
 Jutland is where Denmark first came together in the middle of the "Viking Age" - from around 790 AD to 1066 AD. This map shows some of the major viking age sites and associated places that we visited on our trip around Jutland. Several of these (particularly the Dannevirke, Ravning, Jelling, and Kong Knapps Dige) are associated with the strategically important "Military Road" (or "Army Road") which ran from Saxony north through Jutland.
- The Dannevirke
Defensive earthworks and fortifications across the narowest point of the Jutland peninsular, close to Schleswig in northern Germany.
- Ribe
Important Viking trading centre, medieval town, viking museum, and Viking Centre.
- Ravning Bridge
Remains of a viking bridge across the Vejle river at Ravning.
- Jelling
Burial mounds and rune stones by Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth. A World Heritage Site.
- Århus
Important Viking settlement, small Viking museum, and town museum.
- Kong Knaps Dige
Earthworks and archaeologial landscape from the late Viking and early medieval ages.
- Viborg
Viking settlement and trading centre.
- Fyrkat
One of five distinctive circular fortresses in viking Denmark, also the Fyrkat Viking Centre.
- Lindholm Høje
Burial ground with mounds, stone ship-settings and settlements dating from the Iron Age to the Viking age.
- Links:
- Ribe Viking Museum
- Royal Jelling
- History of Jelling
- Vikingecentre Fyrkat
- Lindholm Høje
- National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
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