Ship launch from Vejerslev

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The former ship settlement of Vejerslev is dated to around 600 AD according to the new excavations and finds and is therefore Iron Age and not Viking Age . Vejerslev in Favrskov municipality was after the 80 km distant and about 356 meters long ship settlement of Jelling the second largest ship settlement in Denmark and larger than all ships in the Scandinavian Peninsula .

The first written mention comes from the time of Christian V (1646–1699) with the name "Høys Steen". Between 1763 and 1781 information can be found in De danske Atlas (First description of Denmark in copper engravings - 7 volumes) and a. by Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764). It says that the ship setting near the Gudenå, southwest of Vejerslev in Jutland, extends between two barrows over a length of about 100 paces. According to the teacher J. Christensen, it was about 88.0 meters long and 13.0 meters wide. The 16 stones that were preserved at this time stood at a distance of 2.0 m to 4.0 m and were between 1.9 and 2.5 meters high. According to the report, the northern Stevenstein had a length of 4.5 meters.

The pointed oval ship setting is said to have originally consisted of two rows of 12 railing stones each plus the two stern stones on the two burial mounds. According to the sources, the ship was set north-east of the Kongensbro across the Gudenå about 170 m from the Gudenå, between two burial mounds with a diameter of 14.0 to 16.0 m. The reports indicate that stones were removed from the ship's setting in 1743. The remaining stones were removed about 100 years later.

Johannes Brøndsted (1890–1965) tried in 1929 unsuccessfully to locate the ship's settlement.

According to a more recent piece of information about the ship's settlement studies, it is perhaps the oldest royal grave in Denmark. Remarkable gold finds show that the ship's setting framed a cremation grave from the Iron Age (550–750 AD).

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Coordinates: 56 ° 18 ′ 15 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 56.1"  E