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The Pillars of old Uppsala 800 BC - 600 AD
In Oktober 2013 revealed Swedish archeologist that they had found a 900 metre long wooden pillar column near the royal burial ground. In February 2014 showed the oldest samples from the woden pillars that the oldest ones was 2800 years old. So the wooden pillars was erected and in use during a time period of atleast 1400 years.
Experts believe the pillars would have been atleast around 7-8 m high and each pillar was supported with 1,5 ton stone.
Also a smaller wodden collumn of over 500 meters long has been found south of this collumn but hasent yet been totaly excavated.
The colonnades were found near a famous burial site where the three Iron Age kings Aun, Egil and Adils are believed to be buried.
In Ynglinga saga, Odin is considered the 2nd Mythological king of Sweden, succeeding Gylfi and was succeeded by Njörðr.
Colonnades found in the ancient pagan religious centre of Old Uppsala during work on a new railway line.
In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, Adam of Bremen provides a description of the temple in Uppsala. Adam records that a "very famous temple called Ubsola" exists in a town close to Sigtuna. Adam details that the temple is "adorned with gold" and that the people there worship statues of three specific gods that sit on a triple throne. Thor, whom Adam refers to as "the mightiest," sits in the central throne, while Wodan (Odin) and Fricco (Freyr) are seated on the thrones to the sides of him.
In The Roman historian Tacitus's late first-century work Germania, Tacitus refers to the god Odin as "Mercury", Thor as "Hercules", and the god Týr as "Mars". In Thor's case, the identification with the god Hercules is likely at least in part due to similarities between Thor's hammer and Hercules' club. In his Annals, Tacitus again refers to the veneration of "Hercules" by the Germanic peoples; he records a wood beyond the river Weser (in what is now northwestern Germany) as dedicated to him.
So if we asume that the largest pillar column are dedicated Thor who were the main god in Uppsala, the largest pillar columns real name would be the Pillars of Hercules.
Its the largest excavation ever made in Uppsala.
More info:
http://www.arkeologigamlauppsala.se/arkeologigamlauppsala/SiteCollectionDocuments/UNT%2020140420.pdf
facebook.com/pages/Arkeologi-Gamla-Uppsala/159818510854851?fref=ts
Music : Audiomachine - Pillars of Earth
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The Pillars of old Uppsala 800 BC - 600 AD
In Oktober 2013 revealed Swedish archeologist that they had found a 900 metre long wooden pillar column near the royal burial ground. In February 2014 showed the oldest samples from the woden pillars that the oldest ones was 2800 years old. So the wooden pillars was erected and in use during a time period of atleast 1400 years.
Experts believe the pillars would have been atleast around 7-8 m high and each pillar was supported with 1,5 ton stone.
Also a smaller wodden collumn of over 500 meters long has been found south of this collumn but hasent yet been totaly excavated.
The colonnades were found near a famous burial site where the three Iron Age kings Aun, Egil and Adils are believed to be buried.
In Ynglinga saga, Odin is considered the 2nd Mythological king of Sweden, succeeding Gylfi and was succeeded by Njörðr.
Colonnades found in the ancient pagan religious centre of Old Uppsala during work on a new railway line.
In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, Adam of Bremen provides a description of the temple in Uppsala. Adam records that a "very famous temple called Ubsola" exists in a town close to Sigtuna. Adam details that the temple is "adorned with gold" and that the people there worship statues of three specific gods that sit on a triple throne. Thor, whom Adam refers to as "the mightiest," sits in the central throne, while Wodan (Odin) and Fricco (Freyr) are seated on the thrones to the sides of him.
In The Roman historian Tacitus's late first-century work Germania, Tacitus refers to the god Odin as "Mercury", Thor as "Hercules", and the god Týr as "Mars". In Thor's case, the identification with the god Hercules is likely at least in part due to similarities between Thor's hammer and Hercules' club. In his Annals, Tacitus again refers to the veneration of "Hercules" by the Germanic peoples; he records a wood beyond the river Weser (in what is now northwestern Germany) as dedicated to him.
So if we asume that the largest pillar column are dedicated Thor who were the main god in Uppsala, the largest pillar columns real name would be the Pillars of Hercules.
Its the largest excavation ever made in Uppsala.
More info:
http://www.arkeologigamlauppsala.se/arkeologigamlauppsala/SiteCollectionDocuments/UNT%2020140420.pdf
facebook.com/pages/Arkeologi-Gamla-Uppsala/159818510854851?fref=ts
Music : Audiomachine - Pillars of Earth
Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
