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A burial mound clearly marked and highly visible in the flat landscape along the entrance to the Trondheim Fjord. Strategically placed between the fjord and the coastal thoroughfare. An area where powerful men and women have resided. Powerful families with estates and the ability to control traffic across both land and sea. The mound was...

In the Early Iron Age, long before Christianity was introduced in our country, graves were dwellings for the dead. The house and the farm belonged to the living, while the mounds and cairns belonged to deceased ancestors. Ancestry was important for religion and rituals. The burial site was a sacred and significant place in the...