Qualla: Haraldskær Woman https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:41 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/y/s/haraldsk-r-woman-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Haraldskær Woman https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman Haraldskær Woman: Introduction https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman/ Photo credit The original uploader was Covalent at English Wikipedia., Public domain. A Danish king paid for her coffin. Frederick VI had an elaborately carved sarcophagus commissioned for the body peat cutters had pulled out of the Haraldskær Estate bog near Vejle in 1835, because the learned opinion of the moment held that she was Gunnhild, the tenth-century Norwegian queen whom the Jomsvikinga Saga says Harald Bluetooth had drowned in a Danish bog. The learned opinion was wrong by roughly fourteen hundred years. Getting to that answer took the better part of a century and a half, and it turned into one of the founding arguments of European archaeology.

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/y/s/haraldsk-r-woman-wp/u1ys-haraldsk-r-woman-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Haraldskær Woman: Peat Cutters, 1835 https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman/ Photo credit The original uploader was Covalent at English Wikipedia., Public domain. She was lying on her back. Her clothes - a leather cape and three woollen garments - had not been worn but laid over her, and she had been pinned into the peat beneath hurdles of branches and wooden poles. The bog had done what bogs do: acid and airlessness had held the whole ski...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/y/s/haraldsk-r-woman-wp/u1ys-haraldsk-r-woman-peat-cutters-1835.mp3 0:06 2 full Haraldskær Woman: A Queen Who Was Never There https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman/ Photo credit The original uploader was Covalent at English Wikipedia., Public domain. Denmark in the 1830s wanted a Viking queen very badly, and here appeared a woman preserved well enough to be one. The saga account of Gunnhild's death in a bog fitted the circumstances closely enough to convince the court, and the king ordered a sarcophagus worthy of royal remain...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/y/s/haraldsk-r-woman-wp/u1ys-haraldsk-r-woman-a-queen-who-was-never-there.mp3 0:06 3 full Haraldskær Woman: Worsaae Against the Poets https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman/ Photo credit McLeod, Public domain. J. J. A. Worsaae, a pioneer of archaeological stratigraphy, disputed the identification in 1842 and argued from the deposit itself that she belonged to the Iron Age. He was, in the short term, outgunned. Steen Steensen Blicher had already published a novella in 1836, Gravhojen, p...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/y/s/haraldsk-r-woman-wp/u1ys-haraldsk-r-woman-worsaae-against-the-poets.mp3 0:06 4 full Haraldskær Woman: What the Body Says https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman/ Photo credit The original uploader was Covalent at English Wikipedia., Public domain. Physicians in 1835 put her age at about fifty and noted that she showed none of the degenerative wear, arthritis in particular, usually found in remains that old. By 1979, when doctors at Arhus Hospital re-examined her, she had dried and shrunk to 133 centimetres; working from th...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/y/s/haraldsk-r-woman-wp/u1ys-haraldsk-r-woman-what-the-body-says.mp3 0:06 5 full Haraldskær Woman: Vejle https://qualla.com/haraldsk-r-woman/ Photo credit The original uploader was Covalent at English Wikipedia., Public domain. She lies today in a glass-covered sarcophagus in the Cultural Museum in central Vejle, a short drive from the ground she came out of. Denmark and the wider Jutland peat country have yielded more than five hundred ancient bodies by conservative counts, the oldest reaching back to ...

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