Annemette Karpen takes the audience on a journey through Danish prehistory, from the late Stone Age, when skilled craftspeople made fine flint tools and weapons, through the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age.
The talk covers early boatbuilding for sailing Europe's rivers, the flourishing trade in amber, salt, tools and bronze weapons, and the switch from bronze to iron. It also touches on the sun worship and the androgynous deity Njord, along with Nordic gods from the Iron Age and the arrival of Christianity, including the tale of the monk Poppo and the ordeal by iron before King Harald Bluetooth.
