The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/denmark)
A bronze head of the Roman emperor Septimus Severus, illegally trafficked from a shrine where he had been worshiped as a deity in antiquity, will be repatriated from Denmark to Turkey.
A cloak of thousands of scarlet ibis feathers, sacred to the Indigenous Tupinambá people of Brazil, has been in Danish hands since the 1600s. Now it has finally been returned to Brazil in the midst of an ongoing dispute over Indigenous rights in the country.
A new study uses skeletal trauma, grave goods, runestones, and infrastructure to argue that Viking Age Denmark and Norway had markedly different relationships to interpersonal violence.
A new exhibition at Denmark’s National Museum uses the figure of the völva, a female oracle and sorcerer, to explore how pre-Christian Scandinavians thought of time, religion, and destiny.
Danish runologists have interpreted a bracteate from the Vindelev Hoard as the oldest known inscription that mentions the god Odin.