The Jelling goblet

In 965, King Harald Modrozub proclaimed on a large rune stone in Jelling that the Danes have a new religion - Christianity.
He had a church built between the North and South Mounds and a burial chamber underneath for the transferred remains of his father Gorm the Old, to be baptized after his death as well.

On the cup from this mound we see two intertwined animals with the typical elongated limbs, ornamental ribbons, long tail and spiral hip joint and faces in profile. It is from the dragons on this cup that the entire Jelling art style, which was modern from the ninth to the tenth century, is named.