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May. 4, 2021 2:01 AM
Don’t you hate to lose your hairpins, your wallet, your Viking ancestor? Happy is the day a kind stranger calls with your mislaid credit card in hand, and when a mislabeled box sitting around the National Museum of Denmark for over a century turns out to contain the missing remains of a rich Viking, originally dug up in Bjerringhøj, a mound near the village of Mammen in Denmark.
The rediscovery of the Viking’s remains and extraordinary garb has been reported by Charlotte Rimstad and Ulla Mannering of the National Museum of Denmark, with Marie Louise Jørkov of the University of Copenhagen and Marie Kanstrup of Aarhus University in the journal of Antiquity.
Antiquity Publications Ltd/Rimstad et al/R. Fortuna, National Museum of Denmark
The remains of a Viking have been rediscovered after being missing for more than a century. They were safely stored in a museum the whole time, but had been mislabelled.
The person was buried with expensive grave goods, suggesting they were an elite person or even royalty. They also seem to have been wearing long trousers with elaborate decorations.
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The story begins in 1868, near the village of Mammen in Denmark. A local landowner named Laust Pedersen Skomager enlisted local farmers to help him remove the topsoil from a mound on his estate. They found it concealed a wooden Viking burial chamber, now called Bjerringhøj. The farmers dug up the contents and shared them out – so when academics arrived on the scene soon after, they had first to recover the remains from their new owners.
TORONTO Human remains of a Viking elite that were initially uncovered in a burial mound in Denmark have been rediscovered after more than 100 years in a misplaced box in the National Museum of Denmark. A new paper in the Antiquity journal details how the bones were rediscovered a century later while researchers were working on another project about Viking Age textiles. The Viking Age burial mound, known as Bjerringhoj, located in the village of Mammen, Denmark, was initially uncovered by a landowner in 1868. After it s discovery, local farmers shared the grave goods between them – which were eventually recovered by scholars and sent to the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.