Skalunda

Skalunda is a village at Lidköping Municipality in Västergötland, Sweden.

Skalunda was an important location dating to the Iron Age and was one of the eight royal estates of early medieval Västergötland (cf.

The towerless church was built of finely hewn sandstone blocks.

The burial mound has not yet been excavated, but C14 surveys from the ground have dated it to the beginning of the 6th century.

[5] Swedish philologist, archaeologist and historian Birger Nerman (1888-1971) director of the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, suggested Skalunda Barrow to be a likely burial site of the hero Beowulf, a legendary Geatish king.