Once upon a time, there was a Viking king. He prayed to Thor, Odin and Freya, and ruled over a land that did not have an official name in the year 950.
Being imaginative as well as influential, he commissioned a stone to celebrate his centre of power in Jelling. It was inscribed in runes, translating to “King Gorm made these runes in honour of his wife Thyra, the pride of Denmark”.






