Nonnebakken
Sign in to saveNonnebakken (literally, "The Nun Hill") is a hill in Odense, Denmark. It is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of Sweyn Forkbeard, who had forced his father Harold Bluetooth to leave the country and seek refuge with the Jomsvikings on Wollin (modern Poland) around 975. The fort enabled its occupier to control the Odense River passing next to the hill.
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- Nonebakken
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- Nonnebakken.jpg
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- Detail from a 1593 engraving, showing the remains of the former ring fort of Nonnebakken
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- Denmark
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- Location of the site in Denmark
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- 250px
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- Odense, Denmark
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- Viking ring fortress
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- c. 980
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- Iron Age, Viking Age
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Nonnebakken (literally, "The Nun Hill") is a hill in Odense, Denmark. It is the site of one of Denmark's six former Viking ring castles, built during the reign of Sweyn Forkbeard, who had forced his father Harold Bluetooth to leave the country and seek refuge with the Jomsvikings on Wollin (modern Poland) around 975. The fort enabled its occupier to control the Odense River passing next to the hill.
The name refers to a Benedictine nunnery located here in earlier times. At the end of the 12th century, the nuns left the site to build a new church in Dalum to the southeast, now a suburb of Odense.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nonnebakken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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