Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church,Denmark.

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people towards the middle of the 10th century.Its incised inscription, beneath an inscribed interlaced Nordic dragon, reads "King Harald bade this monument be made in memory of Gorm his father and Thyra his mother, that Harald who won for himself all Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christians"The original position of an adjacent smaller runic stone is not known. However, the stone has been in its present location since about 1630. Its inscription reads "King Gorm made this monument to his wife Thyra, Denmark's ornament"
Date of Inscription: 1994
Minor boundary modification inscribed year: 2018
Ref: 697bis  ( unesco.org )
Thank you Doris for the fascinating site card
1942 and 1946 Stamp-King Christian X.
1961-7 Stamp- King Frederik IX
2005 Stamp-Definitive stamp