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The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone
The Jelling Stone

Image credit: Colleen Rowe Harvey / Art UK

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This cast of the Jelling Stone is an exact replica of the larger of the two runic stones at Jelling, in Jutland, Denmark. There is a runic inscription on the front of the stone and a figure of the crucified Christ and a figure of a lion in the grip of a serpent on the other sides of the richly ornamented stone, which was originally painted in colours of red, blue, yellow and black.
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

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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)

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Located at

St Katharine's Precinct, Camden Town

NW1 4HH

Located through the arches next to the Danish Church of St Katharine.