Cemetery of Domarlunden
The cemetery of Domarlunden (actually Domarlunden / Liffride - German "Richterhain" ) is east of Lärbro in the Lajkarhajd (heath) on the Swedish island of Gotland .
The burial ground
The originally contiguous Bronze Age and Iron Age burial ground , measuring around 80 × 70 m , is divided by the Liffride farm, which was relocated during the land consolidation, and is now divided into Domarlunden and Liffride. The investigation of the burial ground was carried out in the 1960s and 1970s. The results show that the eastern part of the burial ground was used during the Younger Bronze Age.
Liffride
The western portion of the burial ground is of an approximately three meter high Röse m limestone and field stones with a diameter of about 37 and a height of 3.5 m dominates. Menhirs , stone settlements and small cairn tombs are also found here . During the investigation of seven stone settlements in 1877, finds were found which indicate that the burial ground was used during the late Iron Age .
Domarlunden
In the eastern part lies the cemetery known as Domarlunden (Richterhain). Several, partially damaged ship settlements lie here , which consist of boulders and, which is extremely rare, of limestone slabs. A number of ship settlements were investigated in 1917. To the west of it is a rose.
Hagvide
Behind Domarlunden, a branch leads south through the courtyard parts of Hägvide. Hof Hägvide is located south of the Lärbro – Hellvi road and south-east of Lajkarhajd. Gotland's only rock carvings are found here . They were only discovered on the “Hernäkern” in 1910 and show 23 images of ships, four pairs of soles of the feet , four axes with shafts and around 150 bowls on an outcrop of nine by five meters . The carvings are dated to the Bronze Age.
Legend
The road between Lärbro and Hellvi crosses the Lajkarhajd, a vast heath area in which, according to legend, the Norwegian King Olaf the Holy (955-1030) fought a battle against the pagan Northern Goths around 1020 to force them to adopt Christianity to accept. Tradition also reports that the king kneeled on a boulder and prayed before the battle, with his knees and elbows leaving marks in the stone. The stay of the king on Gotland is not documented.
Sangelsten
The legend refers to the Sangelstein , a sacrificial stone with 19 bowls ( Swedish skälgropar ). It is located on Lekare hed, a pasture 300 m south of the road. The sacrificial stone “sings”; d. that is, it makes a sound when you knock on it with a stone. In addition to the Sangelstein, there is a burial ground in Lajkarhajd with a dozen exposed stone settings and cairn graves.
See also
literature
- Erik Nylén: Gotländska form . In: Svenska turistföreningens årsskrift 1966, ISSN 0347-6081 , pp. 183-204.
- Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide . Almqvist and Wiksell, Uppsala 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X .
Web links
- Cemetery of Domarlunden - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description and pictures (Swedish)
- The cemetery of Domarlunden on Grosssteingraeber.de
Coordinates: 57 ° 47 ′ 2 ″ N , 18 ° 49 ′ 3.2 ″ E