Kroppedal Museum

When his face split into a grin or grimace, the deep horizontal grooves etched into his front teeth were exposed. And with his almost 190cm, large and powerful hands, he really was the archetypal "Great Viking", as he is described at Kroppedal Museum. You can meet him in the film Rural Vikings and inspect his earthly remains, which were excavated at the nearby Snubbekorsgård burial site, along with other graves and objects on display at the museum. A total of 120 graves from the early 800s have been found at the site, which today is a flat field with no visible trace of Viking life. In the Viking Age, graves were marked with stones or small mounds. A new Viking exhibition is set to run at Kroppedal Museum in the autumn of 2018. A Viking Age dwelling If you walk 200 metres towards the main road along Kroppedals Allé and turn left, you will come to a clearing in a small thicket. At this site, the postholes of a Viking Age 30m long hall have been marked out with bright poles. An extended family lived here with slaves and livestock at some time in the early 800s – perhaps the "Great Viking" himself!

Viking causeway and bridge A 700 metre Viking Age road and bridge causeway is being built, running across Store Vejleådalen, in the area between Kroppedal Museum and the Viking Village. The work started in April 2017 and involves accurate reconstructions of a sunken road, a gravel and brush path and planked and paved lanes and, most noteworthy, an exact 100 metre long replica of King Harald Bluetooth’s bridge across Ravning Enge near Vejle. Visitors will also be able to experience Viking Age nature and culture in live and virtual reality formats.. Med afsæt i vikingetiden vil man også kunne opleve levende og digital natur- og kulturformidling.