Jelling stone ship

[1][2][3] However, recent archaeological research and the re-evaluation of large pits on the west side of the north mound which were noted in the 1960s has led to a different reconstruction, in which the ship had the north mound as its centre rather than its stern and was 354 metres (1,161 ft) long; this length corresponds to 1,200 Roman feet, and the Trelleborg fortresses were also measured out in Roman feet.

Between the two mounds, Harald placed a larger runestone in memory of both his parents, and the smaller stone now stands beside it.

[10] The lichen on the ship stones which were covered by the south mound suggests that by then they had stood in the open for some 20 to 30 years.

[12] The runestone to Thyra, whose original position is unknown, may have been associated with the ship,[10] perhaps forming its prow, in which case it would have been part of Gorm's monument to his queen.

[3][13] There is also a stone ship associated with a Bronze Age burial mound at Bække, where a runestone was raised by Tue, son of Ravn, to his trutnik Thyra, claiming that Tue raised Thyra's mound.