Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Rishaugen
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What the sources say
Rishaugen ved Søndre Holstad gård i Ås kommune i Akershus er en stor gravhaug fra jernalderen. Til haugen knytter seg et kjent sagn om hulderkvinnen Herløg Rishaug (Herlaug Rishaug) som forelsker seg i gårdsgutten Åsulv.
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- Wikipedia (Norwegian): RishaugenCC BY-SA 4.0
Rishaugen is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Ås Municipality, Norway. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Norwegian article "Rishaugen", shown in the original language.
Eksterne lenkerSources for this section
- Wikipedia (Norwegian): RishaugenCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (Norwegian): RishaugenCC BY-SA 4.0
Sagnet om Herløg Rishaug
Dramatisering av sagnet om Herlaug Rishaug
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Norwegian burial mounds of the Iron and Viking Ages
Many of Norway's mounds belong to the Iron Age and the Viking Age, when the dead of the powerful were laid beneath mounds. In Old Norse a burial mound is haugr, and many farm names come from it. The large mounds of Vestfold, on the western shore of the Oslo Fjord, include Borre, Gokstad and Oseberg. The Borre mound cemetery, in Borre National Park, has seven large mounds and 21 smaller ones, some more than 45 metres across and up to 6 metres high. Excavations in the 1980s showed that the oldest date from about 600 CE, before the Viking Age, and the site is evidence of a local centre of power from the Merovingian period to the Viking Age.
Ships were buried in several of these mounds. The Gokstad mound in Sandefjord, whose name Kongshaugen means "the king's mound", was opened in 1880 and held a ninth-century longship, the largest preserved Viking ship in Norway. The name had long been dismissed as folklore, but the legends led the owner's sons to dig. The mound had been reduced by ploughing to 5 metres in height, and its measured size was 50 by 43 metres. The Oseberg mound near Tønsberg, also in Vestfold, held another well-preserved ship. At Gokstad the other grave goods were probably plundered in ancient times, and no gold or silver was found.
Not all Norwegian mounds are Viking; many are older. Dating combines typology and radiocarbon dating, and for ship burials the tree rings in the timber.
When visiting, look for a mound beside an old farm, for stone kerbs, and for a flat, ploughed-down top.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Borre mound cemetery, Wikipedia: Gokstad ship, Wikipedia: Oseberg ship, Wikipedia: Viking Age, Wikipedia: Burial mound · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Where it stands
Norway
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- Coordinates
- 59°41′11″ N, 10°47′57″ EFor a GPS or map app: 59.68640, 10.79930
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Legends and claims
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- Tradition
Rishaugen ved Søndre Holstad gård i Ås kommune i Akershus er en stor gravhaug fra jernalderen.
Rishaugen ved Søndre Holstad gård i Ås kommune i Akershus er en stor gravhaug fra jernalderen. Til haugen knytter seg et kjent sagn om hulderkvinnen Herløg Rishaug (Herlaug Rishaug) som forelsker seg i gårdsgutten Åsulv.
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Around this place
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Text, licence and sources
Text from the Wikipedia article "Rishaugen" (Norwegian), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors
- Wikipedia (Norwegian): RishaugenCC BY-SA 4.0
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