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Title
The Jelling Stone
Date
c.988 AD & 1955
Medium
stone
Accession number
NW1_CRH_S139
Work type
Monument
Owner
Danish Church of St Katharine
Custodian
Danish Church of St Katharine
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
1955
Access
at all times
Inscription description
west face, red painted runic letters incised between four thick painted beige lines: 'Harald King made this memorial after Gorm his father and after Thyra his mother: that Harald who won for himself all Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christians' (translated from the Viking runes)
St Katharine's Precinct, Camden Town
NW1 4HH
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