BORREHAUGENE

If you would like to see and experience more Viking history, we recommend that you take a trip to Borre Park, a short car ride from here. In the beautiful Borre Park, which lies just below the Midgard Viking Museum, you will find the Nordic’s largest collection of large burial mounds from the early Iron Age. In the period from around 600 to 900 AD, there were nine large burial mounds created at Borre. In addition, three large stone mounds lie amongst the grass clad mounds, something that gives the place a monumental and slightly mythical character. Borre contains the largest number of large Iron Age burial mounds in the whole of Northern Europe, in addition to 30 smaller burial mounds. These large burial mounds are testament to the political power that was expressed through the monumental mounds. Borre was a seat of power in the Iron Age. The Vikings felt at home here and to be interred here was reserved for the elite. According to the sagas and old tales it is said to be the Yngling family themselves that are buried here. It was believed that those who belonged to this lineage were descended from Odin – the Vikings foremost God. In Borre Park there is a fine longhouse, which was the Vikings’ celebration hall. Amongst other things, the Norwegian series ‘ Vikings’ was partly filmed here.