{"id":69966,"date":"2024-09-26T11:53:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sagnlandet.dk\/fortidsfamilie-information-jernalder\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:30:54","slug":"past-family-information-iron-age","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sagnlandet.dk\/en\/past-family-information-iron-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Past family information Iron Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n
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Ancient family information Iron Age<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t
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Welcome to Lethra. The Iron Age village is our take on a small settlement landscape in the period 200 BC to 200 AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this page you will find useful information about your stay in Lejre Land of Legends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the best known ancient period, archaeologically speaking. Every time something is built in modern-day Denmark, the site is examined for any underlying ancient monuments and cultural layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most often, archaeologists come across myriads of post marks with darker soil colors. These so-called “post holes” are cut and different house plans are revealed and separated from each other and fence courses from different phases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, houses and then the first villages in Denmark’s history were enclosed with wicker, brushwood or palisade fences, often with no major defensive purpose. Primarily, the fences were intended to prevent cattle from eating thatch, or to separate the ownership of grazing poultry and cattle in tethers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the man-high palisade fences, they could at least prevent the entry of mounted warriors into the village during attacks. The stone-paved paths connecting the gates to the house entrances prevent the village from muddying up as cattle are led to and from the surrounding pastures and woodlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the innermost and most hilly parts of the country, almost all of Denmark has been populated and under the plow during the Iron Age. If you check your local museum’s archaeological builders’ reports, your home may well be on top of an Iron Age house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/The staff of the Iron Age<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\r\n

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Information about your stay<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\r\n\r\n
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Enjoy your time travel to the Iron Age<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Are you and your children ready to break old habits and go offline to experience something special this summer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Lejre Land of Legends offers a different kind of time travel to the Iron Age. You will live as Iron Age people in the Iron Age village of Lethra. You’ll learn about the life of the Iron Age people, lots of fun and practical tasks and learn about Iron Age methods and materials. You will gather firewood and bake bread, pick herbs and cook soup, try your hand at textiles and forge in the Iron Age way. The week offers shared experiences, new challenges and lots of socializing.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\r\n

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Since 1967, families from the past have traveled in time in Lejre Land of Legends and taken part in an experience that is considered a groundbreaking experiment worldwide. In addition to bringing the Iron Age environment to life, over 1,000 Danish and foreign families have tried the time machine and participated in the experiment. They have tested archaeological hypotheses about living conditions at the time in practice and helped refine our understanding of the ancient environment, society and people.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\r\n\r\n

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An ancient family vacation is a full-day experience where you can enjoy and wander in the darkness and silence of nature, or even tinker all night if you like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll have the opportunity to tell the story of the exciting and evolving Iron Age on which the Vikings later based their expansion; a multi-ethnic and dynamic world of barbarians settling in Iron Age villages – competing with Roman cities for civilization – from tribe to state.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\r\n\r\n

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You can weave your own Iron Age personality around the history of the Iron Age and Lethra. As a family of the past, you travel back 2000 years in time. You become part of the reconstructed environment of the time and get the opportunity to live in the everyday life of the past for a short week. A time travel to the Iron Age allows you to return to your present – more relaxed, closer as a family and perhaps a little more at peace with yourselves. With a vacation in the Land of Legends, you get an experience and many stories that you can take with you in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope that you will take home some unforgettable, fun and different vacation memories and experiences, and we will do our utmost to make it happen. We want you to feel welcome in our prehistoric present and that you will help build on it. See you soon, behind the hills of Lejre, where the Iron Age village of Lethra – your home for a while – is waiting for you.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\n

For ordinary families<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Families of the past in Lejre Land of Legends are ordinary families who want to spend part of their vacation in one of our reconstructed environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The families of the past are an important part of the education in Lejre Land of Legends. The Iron Age families help bring the areas to life as part of Lejre Land of Legends’ cultural history experiments and share their own experiences with the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don’t have to be a traditional nuclear family to become a family of the past. Friends, neighbors, grandparents and extra children can easily be part of your Iron Age family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A week as a prehistoric family is an all-round, full-body experience and an unforgettable week where you as participants learn a lot about the past, old chores and crafts – and about your own skills and limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A different kind of vacation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a prehistoric family in the Iron Age, you travel 2000 years back in time and move into one of the four reconstructed longhouses in the Iron Age village of Lethra for a week. Here you’ll learn about the life and times of the Iron Age people, lots of fun and practical tasks and learn about their crafts and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout your stay, there will be at least one instructor from Lejre Land of Legends who, as a local Iron Age inhabitant, will be at your disposal during the daytime. The instructor will help you through your time travel and guide and instruct you in everything from cooking and herbal knowledge to lighting fires, caring for animals and the many other chores of Iron Age life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope you will enjoy every moment of your vacation in the world’s best time machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before you arrive at Lejre Land of Legends<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It is important that you read this page carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\r\n

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When it comes to food and diets, you must consider what you can bring to meet your special needs, as the Iron Age diet could not decide whether the food should be organic, vegetarian or vegan, alcohol or fermentation-free, lactose or gluten-free, halal or kosher, blessed or junkish. As families, you can choose to separate vegetables and meat, opt out of ingredients or dishes on the menu if the basic ingredients you receive are delivered according to the hygiene rules under the smiley scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most important thing for us is that you get the food you need to thrive and stay healthy and healthy Iron Age people.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\r\n\r\n

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Fast food in the Iron Age means about 2 hours. Especially for newly arrived ancient families, it can take a long time to prepare meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why it’s important to give them something to make the wait less long. In the weeks leading up to your stay, you can make your own dried herbs, plants, fruits, meat or fish, or even Iron Age beverages to supplement the ingredients you are given. Feel free to bring nuts, apples and biscuits if you know there is something that will help your children have a good experience. These are also items that you will be provided with, but will be shared with the rest of the village.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\r\n\r\n

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Throughout your stay, the local Iron Age villager will brief you every morning at 10:00 and the other village instructors will introduce you to selected crafts in the morning so you can tinker away in the afternoon. Remember: An ancient family stay is a full-day experience where you can also enjoy and wander in the darkness and silence of nature, or even tinker all night if you like!<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\r\n\r\n

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An Iron Age family vacation offers many wonderful outdoor activities, Iron Age houses with clay floors that – although the past is anything but dusty – are dustier than most modern buildings and sleeping under thatched roofs and with straw in bed. As an allergy sufferer, it’s up to you to decide if a vacation in the past is for you.<\/p>\n\n\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Food, allergies and food<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Food throughout your stay is part of any holiday as a family of the past. As an Iron Age family, the basic elements of food are raw materials such as grain, dairy, meat, fish, peas, apples, mushrooms, nuts and onions and wild herbs. The food is prepared as an ancient family with the help of the local Iron Age inhabitant. In terms of raw materials, the diet is similar to what we know the Iron Age farmers of the past were able to provide, although the menu offers less porridge and more ancient feast food.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\r\n

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Vegan, vegetarian and dietary considerations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

As Iron Age food cannot be made in versions that are lactose-free, gluten-free or 100% vegan, we recommend that those with special dietary requirements bring additional food as needed. Lejre Land of Legends is not responsible for a varied and filling diet that meets these requirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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The important to-do list<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Here is an overview of the most important things to remember to bring from home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n