Särestad burial ground
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The Särestad burial ground is north of Asige , near Falkenberg in Halland in Sweden .
About forty building stones , ten burial mounds and a Treudd stand / lie on the Iron Age burial ground . Buried here are people who lived near Särestad during the Bronze and Iron Ages (1500 BC to 650 AD).
Hagbard's fellow
In Hagbards, kulle the adjacent grave large hill, a covered with soil is Röse from the end of bronze or from the Viking time (850-1050 n. Chr.). The hill is about 6 meters high and 35 meters in diameter and is associated with Hagbard from Norse mythology .
The burial ground and the separate burial mound were not archaeologically examined.
Hagbard's gallows stands nearby . There is a Hagbards Høj in Denmark and the Agnes ship setting in Norway is called Hagbards grav.
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ), p. 253
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is believed that the name Asige refers to Aesir, the ancient gods of the north, the place could have been a place of worship.
Web links
- Särestad cemetery - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Hagbards kulle - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description (Swedish)
- Description of the burial ground (English)
- Description of the monoliths (English)
- Description of Hagbards Kulle (English)
Coordinates: 56 ° 53 '54.7 " N , 12 ° 43' 1.5" E