Private guided tours Companies, private groups and families can book a guided tour at The Viking Fortress, Trelleborg. We can tailor a guided tour suitable to your wishes. A guided tour takes approximately 1 hour and sometimes 1,5 hours depending on the size of the group, questions from the group etc. Guided tours can be arranged outside opening hours. Please, send an e-mail to trelleborg-booking@natmus.dk or +45 41 20 63 93 to book events, private tours or if you have any certain requests. It can take up to a week to get response. We can't wait to hear from you! It is possible to purchase
Human skull and quern stone from a well at Trelleborg. A human life was the most valuable sacrifice that the Vikings could make to the gods. We know from written sources that Odin – the king of the gods – demanded human sacrifices. But do the sources tell the truth? Plan of the excavated structures at Trelleborg with the wells marked in relation to the Viking fortress. Exaggerated accounts? There are several [...] at the Viking fortress of Trelleborg and the magnate’s residence at Tissø , both in West Zealand, have made archaeologists think very differently. Human sacrifices at Trelleborg Skeleton of one of the four
in the area, so as to ensure a good view of the surrounding landscape. Plan of the Viking Age fortress of Trelleborg, near Slagelse. Trelleborg is located in south-west Zealand, near Slagelse. Royal construction At the end of the Viking period, the large ring fortresses were built. There are four in Denmark: Trelleborg near Slagelse, Fyrkat close to Mariager Fjord, Aggersborg near Limfjord and Nonnebakken in Odense. [...] during his rule. These included the ring fortresses, great bridges and roads, as well as the enlargement of the defensive system known as the Danevirke. Trelleborg At Trelleborg there were 16 large houses within
of the Trelleborg-type were forund. On the picture to the right is a digital reconstruction of houses and the palisade.
Reconstructions in the Viking village "Slagløse" In the Viking village, you will find a selection of reconstructed smaller house types from Viking villages. There was no village at Trelleborg during the Viking Age, where only traces of the ring fortress have been found. The selection of buildings shows how a smaller village might have looked. The village serves as the setting for the museum's education [...] where ships could have been wintered. The house provides a backdrop for working with wood, including woodturning and carving activities. There are two pit houses of a type found at Trelleborg. The houses
que cuentan los dientes: Los Vikingos de Trelleborg , Vikingos: guerros del norte gigantes del mar , eds. Madsen, P.K. and Wass, I., Museo Arqueológico de Alicante (MARC), Spain, ISBN: [...] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep10431 Gotfredsen, A.B., Primeau, C., Frei, K.M ., and Jørgensen, L., (2015) A ritual site with sacrificial wells from the Viking Age at Trelleborg, Denmark, Danish Journal of Archaeology ;
Facts about the fortress The Trelleborg Viking Fortress covers a total area of 6 ha, which corresponds to 12 football pitches. The structure consists of an inner fortress and an outer ward. The fortress is located close to the confluence of two rivers, the River Tude and the River Vårby, which provided natural protection in three directions. The outer ward is encircled by a rampart which stretches between the two rivers and thus delimits the whole area between them. It is thought that in order to construct Trelleborg, around half of all the oak trees growing on Zealand at the time were felled. The inner
Viking shields The type of shield used by the Vikings can be traced back to the Iron Age. It consists of thin planking, which forms a circular shape. In the middle is a dome of iron to protect the shield bearer’s hand. This is called the shield boss and is often the only part which is preserved after 1000 years in the ground. The date of a shield can be established from the form of the shield boss, which varied throughout the Iron Age and the Viking period. Shield bosses are often found in graves, in which shields accompanied the dead on their final journey. A rare find A rare find was made at Trelleborg
PROGRAM 10.00 The museum opens 11:00 - 15:00 Free Viking games in UDGAARD 11:00 - 15:00 Flatbread baking, tablet weaving, and painting with Viking colors (activity coins required) 11:30 - 12:00 Free d