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The Ladby ship is a major Viking Age ship burial at the village of Ladby, near Kerteminde in Denmark. It is the only ship burial from the Viking Age discovered in Denmark, since Hedeby, a Danish Viking settlement with a similar boat chamber grave, is now located in Germany.
The Ladby ship was discovered on or around the 28th of February 1935. It was found near Kerteminde in northeastern Fyn, Denmark.
The Ladby ship was discovered by Poul Helweg Mikkelsen, a pharmacist and amateur archaeologist. Original drawings by Mikkelsen and Danish National Museum conservator Gustav Rosenberg remain the primary source material on the find.
Researchers offer two explanations for the desecration of the Ladby ship's grave. One holds that the site was a translation, a conversion from a heathen to a Christian grave, while the other points to a power struggle between King Haraldr Blátönn and his heir, Sveinn Tjúguskegg.
The Ladby ship burial has been dated to the early 10th century. The dating is based on a gilded bronze link for a dog harness, decorated in the Jelling style, found at the site.
The Ladby ship is preserved at the site where it was discovered, now part of the Viking Museum at Ladby. A building completed in 2007 houses a full-scale reconstruction of the burial, showing the chieftain with his grave goods, his dogs, and his eleven horses.