Located in central Jutland  of Denmark, this world heritage site consists of two flat-topped mounds known as Jelling Mounds; it is ‘70 metres in diameter and up to 11 metres high, and are almost identical in shape and size and construction, being built of turf, carefully stacked in even layers, with the grass side facing downwards’.

Historical value of the Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones, and Church collectively speak of the story of the migrants’ original homeland.

But Unesco scholarship finds its Nordic culture in a different way when it relates it to the ‘beginning of the conversion of the Scandinavian people to Christianity; ….the ‘transition between pagan and Christian beliefs is vividly illustrated by the successive pagan burial mounds, one pagan runic stone, another commemorating the introduction of Christianity, and the emergence of the church representing Christian predominance. The complex is exceptional in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe’

The large runic stone located exactly midway between the two mounds carries certain incised inscription interlaced with Nordic dragon which reads, “King Harald bade this monument be made in memory of Gorm his father and Thyra his mother’….,’that Harald who won for himself all Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christians”.

This heritage site does not relate itself either to conversion of the Danes to Christianity nor does it indicative of arrival of Christ in Scandinavia.

Denmark identifies itself with biblical Dan settlements which was then on the bank of the river Scamander as same as the river Chandra; it also marks the river Scamander of the Homeric epics. Meaning of ‘Christ’ refers to ‘Krousta’ not to Jesus Christ. The latter was a ‘follower’ of Krousta.

Name Jellings identifies itself with one of the many names which signifies its history and marks its geographical origin with the region where the river Scamander was then flowing. Jelling owes its root to Jali or Jalini; while the former was the name of son of Vessanatara and Maddi, and brother of Kanhajina, the latter was name of one of the five queens of the third Okkaka( of Dan dynasty); Jalini is also name of a goddess; Gorm of the inscription refers to Gotam and Thrya pinpoints his wife Sriya; the latter is also called Yasodhara. Here Denmark pinpoints to the temple of Didyma, goddess of the Dans. Name Runic marks the river Rohini on whose bank this temple of Didyma and the Dab settlements stand.