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The missing king of the ladby shipgrave

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In AD 925, a magnificent 22-meter Viking warship was dragged up a hill overlooking the Kerteminde Fjord.
It was the final resting place of a powerful ruler, marking Denmark’s only definitive example of a Viking ship burial.
But when archaeologists excavated the mound in 1935, the ship was a mere "ghost" of an imprint held together by over 2,000 iron rivets, and the king's body was completely missing.

Join us as we dive into the chilling cold case of the Ladby King.
We explore the cutting-edge naval engineering of his warship, complete with an unprecedented 11-meter iron anchor chain, and the extravagant sacrifice of eleven horses and four to five dogs placed in the ship's bow.

But what happened to the king himself?

We investigate the "Symbolic Rivalry Theory"—the fascinating evidence that the burial was intentionally breached decades later, not by mere grave robbers, but by political rivals.

Discover how agents of the rising Jelling dynasty may have violently shattered the king's remaining grave goods into hundreds of pieces in a brutal act of "political iconoclasm" meant to erase his legacy.

Tune in to uncover a story of power, revenge, and a Viking legacy that refused to stay buried.
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