Roskilde, Denmark
Things to do in Roskilde
Everything in the Atlas for Roskilde: places to see and things to do, in one list.
Viking Ship Museum
Five ships deliberately sunk in 1070 to block the fjord, raised in 1962 and reassembled from fragments. Reconstructions are sailed from the harbour outside.
Roskilde Cathedral
The burial place of forty Danish kings and queens across nine hundred years, so the building is also a walk through changing ideas about how to be remembered.
Row a reconstructed longship
Built with period tools from the excavated hulls; you supply the arms and learn quickly why Vikings were fit.
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