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Activities for kids
Take the family by the arm and travel back to the distant past. We offer a wide range of activities for children.
See the day’s program here
Visit Lejre Land of Legends
Take the family by the arm and travel back to the distant past. We offer a wide range of activities for children. Meet the Stone Age hunter, the Iron Age farmer and the trading Vikings. Grind flour and bake bread biscuits, sail in a Stone Age boat, shoot a bow and arrow and explore life long ago.
In the Land of Legends there are high ceilings and plenty of room to play. Throw yourself into the many activities for young and old alike, or unfold your picnic blanket and settle down in the sun with a picnic basket. We’ll start the fire so you can warm your lunch over the embers – and you can borrow barbecue grills, popcorn pans and breadsticks.
Take a walk in the historic areas, see what the people of the past had for dinner, find out if the wool clothes are itchy and if the old beds are comfy or hard as stone.
You can also say hello to the goats in the petting zoo, watch the wild boars being fed or hunt for treasures of the past in the archaeological watershed. Who knows, maybe one of you will make the best find of the month?
See more in Sagnlandet’s daily program.
If you want to take a guided tour of the Land of Legends, we also offer guided tours for groups – read more here:
Activities in the Land of Legends
Step into the world of great-great-grandfather
Where the road meets a bay, there is a house so beautiful. In fact, there are two houses, together they make up Krikkebjerghuse. Follow the road and enter the crackling rural idyll that otherwise only exists in literature.
Two small white thatched houses are surrounded by their own lush vegetable gardens and fruit trees. Ducks and – if it has been a good year! – geese waddle around freely and chatter merrily. In the paddock not far from the house, sheep and goats roar along with the grunting of the pigs. It wobbles a little on the uneven stone surface. Rest your legs with the cat on your lap.
Step inside the cozy living room where the whole family sleeps at night. Test the bed and consider whether straw is really quite underrated by today’s manufacturers.The good housewife has fired up the wood-burning stove, and this is where the cat is to be found. Slumbering lazily with its legs curled up on the chair next to the warm wood-burning stove.
The daily chores of the homesteaders change with the seasons, and every day there is new work to do. Help the farmers feed the animals and enjoy the sight of the eager pigs running around like playful puppies. Lend a hand when the goat is being milked and you might get to taste the fresh sweet milk. The two homesteads are reproductions of houses from the 1850s.
Sneak a visit to the Stone Age hunters
Chalk your shoes and head to the furthest corner of Lejre Land of Legends. The clock hands race backwards at full speed until you reach the time when man bowed to the whims of nature and lived in and from what he could hunt and gather.
On the shore of the lake stands a small tent. It does not rise high above the ground and can hardly accommodate much more than a couple of adults. The entrance is decorated with the antlers of the animal that made the skins for the clothing: the reindeer. Squat down and look inside and imagine that this was your shelter for the night and that the landscape was your home. A landscape that the ice has just released its grip on, leaving the exposed land sparsely populated by few people and huge animals.
Take a quantum leap in time, stroll along the lakeshore and step inside a cabin that is a ballroom by comparison. Enjoy the fact that it’s possible to stand upright, gaze at the cabin’s ingenious reed covering and notice that at this time of year there was plenty of wood and vegetation to amuse yourself with.
Take another quantum leap and visit a time when seafood was on the menu daily. The sleek boats, carved from logs, are moored on the lake shore right in front of the home’s opening. Sit by the fireplace at the edge of the forest or poke your head inside the dark hut, where sunlight streaks in through cracks in the leather covering.
Athra Pea Wave Settlement: ca. 5,000 BC
Maglemose hut on the headland: ca. 9,000 BC
The reindeer hunter’s tent: ca. 11,000 BC
The Stone Age settlement is always open to visitors but is mainly used for teaching school children on weekdays outside the summer holidays.
Take a time travel to the Iron Age
Step out of everyday life and travel to the distant past. Experience the mix of idyllic village life and harsh living conditions with all your senses.
The road to the Iron Age village of Lethra winds between gentle hills, and on both sides of the path, the village sheep munch on the wild grass.
Open the creaky gate and walk inside the village fence, where the thatched houses huddle together.
Follow the stone paving to the entrance, bow your head and step through the low door. Let your eyes adjust to the darkness and smell the faint scent of the fireplace. Sit on the sheepskins in bed and imagine a world where the clay walls would be the frame of your home.
Let the children explore village life, play in the grass and greet the corn-fed ducks.
Take a peek inside the smithy, which, just like in the Iron Age, is on the other side of the village fence. Isolated so that a fire started by the large sparks that fly from the iron when the blacksmith is working doesn’t spread to the other houses.
Talk to the village guide and hear stories about life 2000 years ago when the world was different.
Visit the historic workshops
Two small white thatched houses nestle on the edge of Videsø. They house Sagnlandet’s historical workshops. The pottery is home to the potters, while next door they work with textiles.
Step inside the potter’s workshop and watch a cup being turned on the bench. Or maybe a Jutland pot is being polished. Perhaps it’s Stone Age pottery that comes out of the hands of one of the potters.
From late Neolithic pots to ‘modern’ glazed cups from the 1800s, the material has always been the same: clay. Sagnlandet’s potters are making history with clay between their fingers. Every day they are immersed in working with the clay and are eager to tell you about it.
On all sides of the craftsmen, shelves and tables abound with clay work from all ages. Explore and satisfy your curiosity about sausage making, turning, glazing and much more.
If you’re lucky, you can get your hands on a lump of clay and try your hand at the techniques.
Move on to the next door neighbor, the costume workshop. Here you’ll find yarns in all sorts of colors, looms, stingrays and other exciting items of thread and clothing that fill the rooms.
Find the weaver behind the loom, the spinner behind the spinning wheel or with her neck bent over her knitting. If it’s empty inside, you’ll probably find color at the boilers under the canopy outside. Learn about the fascinating process of dyeing white yarn red, yellow or green using natural plants.
Every day there are new tasks for the textile experts to tackle, and they’re more than happy to share what they’re up to.
Explore the historical costumes on display and discover what fashion was like among our ancestors.
Meet the wild Vikings of Lejre Land of Legends
‘Greetings, strangers, on this day of Odin’
At the Viking Marketplace’s Peace Mountain, the Vikings of Lejre Land of Legends will greet you in a polite manner and give you a glimpse of everyday life as it might have been just over 1000 years ago.
Meet the blacksmith at the fireplace, peek into tents and chests or smell the stew simmering over the fire – if you’re lucky you might be offered a taste.
Fredsbjerg is used for teaching on weekdays, and you are welcome to visit the children who work on the site. They are happy to tell you about their stay and activities.
During the summer and fall holidays, visitors can join the Vikings themselves and help chop herbs, make bread, churn butter, chop firewood, pull the bellows and much more.
Explore the bonfire valley
Swing your axe and see if you can chop a log. That’s one of the challenges in the bonfire valley, where you’ll be equipped with axes as they looked in the Iron Age.
You can also zip up your lifejacket, board one of the hollowed out logs and paddle out on the lake as they did in the Stone Age. How fast and easy can you steer a log boat? The Stone Age people could sail them across the Baltic Sea, and you can also grind your own flour and fill your stomach with as many biscuits as you can bake. Or you can make yourself comfortable with a picnic basket.
We’ll kick-start the fire so you can heat your lunch over the embers, and you can borrow barbecue grills, popcorn pans and breadsticks, and if you leave your packed lunch at home, you can buy food and drinks at the café kiosk at Videsøhus.Are you a school or a larger group? Then sign up in advance to make sure we have room for you.