Ship launch from Bække
The 45 m long and 6.5 m wide ship setting from Bække (also known as Klebæk Høje ) is located in a field about one kilometer north of the village of Bække in central South Jutland in Denmark . The Viking Age ship settlement ( Danish skibssætning ) lies, like the ship settlement of Vejerslev, between two Bronze Age burial mounds , known as "Klebæk høje", on the old army route ( Danish Hærvejsruten ), which has been traced to the facility . The complex was placed under monument protection in 1890.
The ship consists of 1.25 to 2.0 m high stones. Of the original 60 stones, only nine have survived. The prow of the ship at the west end is like at Glavendrup a rune stone from the 9th or 10th century. It is one of only five rune stones in Denmark that are still in their original place today. It was erected by the sons as a monument to a woman. The text reads: "Revne and Tobbe built these monuments for their mother Vibrog". Perhaps the empty grave that was destroyed during the excavation in 1957 in the middle of the ship was from her.
The west-east orientation, which only occurs in the ships from Glavendrup and Bække, is unusual, while the other large ship settlements are north-south oriented. They usually point in the direction of the Valhalla , where the ships were supposed to take the dead. A legend reports that after the Battle of Brävalla, Odin led the dead in a golden ship to Walhalla in the south.
An examination of the hill lying east of the ship settlement revealed that it was built in three stages. The two inner hills are surrounded by a stone wall about one meter high, consisting of several layers.
The ship's placement was rearranged in 2011. The small stones that marked the missing stones as substitutes have been replaced by steel plates that are modeled on the original stones. This gives the ship's setting a different expression.
Boulder
A few hundred meters north of the Klebæk find Hamborggårdstenen , a boulder of granite . The big stone weighs about 50 tons and was brought here from the Åland Islands. The legend tells that Harald Blauzahn wanted to bring the stone to Jelling , but gave up the project when his son Sven Gabelbart rebelled against him.
literature
- Peter Vilhelm Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968, p. 156
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 113
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Coordinates: 55 ° 34 ′ 54.4 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 42" E