--- title: Jesus Christ Depicted on Jelling Stone author: National Museum of Denmark source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13750/jesus-christ-depicted-on-jelling-stone/ format: machine-readable-alternate license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) updated: 1970-01-01 --- # Jesus Christ Depicted on Jelling Stone _Authored by National Museum of Denmark_ ## Image File [![Jesus Christ Depicted on Jelling Stone](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/13750.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/13750.jpg) ## Image Caption Jelling tones raised by King Harold Bluetooth (r. 958-985 CE) in memory of his deceased parents. As a Christian convert, Bluetooth was responsible for Denmark’s adoption of the new [religion](https://www.worldhistory.org/religion/), thus he had one side of the larger stone depict Christ. Mammen style, 970-986 CE. Left: Photo of the selling stone showing Christ bound in tendrils (photographer: Casiopeia, CC BY-SA 2.0); Right: Photo of reconstruction with original polychromy which is no longer apparent in the original. (National Museum of Denmark). ## Cite This Work ### APA Denmark, N. M. o. (2021, March 29). Jesus Christ Depicted on Jelling Stone. *World History Encyclopedia*. ### Chicago Denmark, National Museum of. "Jesus Christ Depicted on Jelling Stone." *World History Encyclopedia*, March 29, 2021. . ### MLA Denmark, National Museum of. "Jesus Christ Depicted on Jelling Stone." *World History Encyclopedia*, 29 Mar 2021, . ## License & Copyright [![copyright source](/images/partners/logo-smarthistory-sm.gif)](https://smarthistory.org/viking-art/)This content is provided by [Smarthistory](https://smarthistory.org/) under a content sharing agreement. [Original image](https://smarthistory.org/viking-art/) by [**National Museum of Denmark**](https://smarthistory.org/viking-art/). Submitted by [Irina-Maria Manea](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/irinamaria.manea/ "User Page: Irina-Maria Manea"), published on 29 March 2021. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.