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The older of the two Jelling stones was raised by King Gorm The Old in memory of his wife Thyra; the other was raised by their son, Harald Bluetooth , in memory of his parents. King Gorm was the first king of all of Denmark, and his lineage runs all the way to the current monarch, Queen Margrethe II -- making Denmark the oldest continuously ruled kingdom in the world. The larger of the two stones, raised by Harald, has been translated from the ancient Viking runes to English as: "King Harald raises these sepulchral monuments after Gorm, his father and Thyra, his mother. That Harald who won the whole of Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christians." |
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