The Hamborgård stone

Hamborggård Stone

The Hamborggård Stone is a large traveller's boulder that the ice age picked up at the Åland Islands and left here. So that's as far as it got - this is where the glacier melted and couldn't transport the stones any further. So actually, you're very close to the ice margin line or the main stand line

Or was it, as the legends say, Harald Bluetooth who was in the process of moving the stone to Jelling, but gave up and had to leave the stone behind when his son, Svein Forkbeard, rebelled against him? Moving the stone went a little better for the Defence Command in 1990 - they moved the stone to its current location. It was originally 20 metres to the west and underground.

The stone is made of porphyritic granite and measures approximately 4.5 x 4.5 metres and is about 3 metres high. The shape is irregular, with many cracks at the top and sides and a number of fissures. The weight is estimated at 50 tonnes. The large stone is followed by two smaller stones of the same material.

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