The only problem I had was that I got to Ladby 35 minutes before it opened. TomTom, I saw a museum in Kerteminde that looked interesting, please direct me to it. Soon I found myself in the parking lot a the Johannes Larsen Museum. He was a naturalist artist born in Kerteminde in 1867. He and his wife Alhed Warberg moved into this home in 1901.
It was actually more of a compound and also contained a windmill along with the miller's house,
They actually needed all of this room for their family, his sister's family, and other artists that came and went.
Then back to Ladby.Ladby Vikingemuseet is Denmark's only Viking ship grave. It was excavated in 1934. The original occupant and his grave goods have been removed. What is left is the impression the ship left in the soil, they iron rivets where they were on the ship, and the skeletons of 11 horses and 3 or 4 dogs. They remain where they were placed over 1000 years ago.
The entrance to the burial mound
The ship
The skull of one of the horses
The mound is near the water. On the shore I found this small boat.
Speaking of small boats, they had these cute Ladby ships for little Vikings to ride in to the mound.
In the visitor center they set up a recreation of what the shipped may have looked like on the day of the burial.
Complete with mourners
Near this site they have found other Viking age graves, including those of two women. One grave had a skull and the other had jewelry. They took the skull to make a reconstruction of one of the women and then put the jewelry of the other woman on her.
A crew of embroiderers are making a Ladby have gotten together to make a Ladby Tapestry. They have taken as their model the Bayeaux tapestry. They are using the same kind of wool, backing, and stitching technique. They've made some reproductions of the Bayeaux Tapestry to practice.
They are also making a reporducion of the Ladby ship using Viking techniques and Locally grown oaks.
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