The Jutland Peninsula is a wonderful and informative place to spend several unforgettable days here. True, only if you prefer non-standard places - here you are not the Cote d'Azur and skiing, as in the Alps, you will not be lucky.
On the other hand, Jutland is filled with antiquity - a trip here is suitable for people who are partial to cold Scandinavian romance and the charm of antiquity. Germanic pagan tribes, the legendary Vikings and their modern descendants - the Danes - will help to spend time with benefit, providing you an unforgettable vacation.
Nature
Where is the Jutland Peninsula? You should pay attention to Northern Europe, and right under the large and remarkable Scandinavian peninsula, you will immediately notice a small "process" from the mainland. This is Jutland - the place is by no means welcoming, at least at first glance.
Sand dunes on the cold coast of the sea, bays, somewhat reminiscent of the Norwegian fjords well known to all from the Viking films , the remnants of glaciers mixed with limestone rocks and clay - this is what the marine part of the peninsula looks like. In addition to the coast, you can also see cold meadows deep in the peninsula, while about a tenth of the land is occupied by forest.
It used to be part of a large forest covering almost the whole of Europe. Denmark is also famous for a large number of swamps. The weather on the peninsula is also unfriendly, and although in winter the temperature indicator rarely drops below zero, thanks to the warm sea currents, in the summer you will have to face an average July temperature of 15 degrees. So without warm clothes and a raincoat, it’s definitely not worth going to Jutland. The average rainfall, by the way, is between 650 and 750 millimeters, so fogs and constant rains will certainly meet you along the way.
The former greatness of a small country
The oldest state located on the Jutland peninsula is the Danish kingdom. This ancient Viking state took shape as an independent feudal principality (with its capital in Hedeby) only in the tenth century, before that there were only small principalities, constantly fighting among themselves for power over the entire peninsula.
The ancient Danes, like their descendants, the modern Danes apparently appreciated the poor nature of Jutland once they shed so much blood for this piece of land in endless battles. Nevertheless, for some time not only all Scandinavian countries submitted to Denmark , but almost all of England - the Danish king Knut the Great not only conquered Misty Albion, but was able to keep him for almost a hundred years.
Ancient mummies in the swamps of Scandinavia
The Jutland Peninsula has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Especially many monuments occur in the Bronze Age, when the ancestors of modern Germanic peoples - Indo-Europeans - fell on the territory of modern Denmark. The special climate of Jutland (many swamps) allowed not only to preserve the household items of ancient people, but even the fabric, hair and their bodies.
Of particular interest to both scientists and tourists are the ancient mummies, which are taken from the bottom of the swamps, with intact clothes and even hairstyles of that time. Some of the surviving mummies date back three thousand years. These peoples were the ancestors of the already historical Cimbri and Teutons, captured in ancient Roman historical works and chronicles. It is not for nothing that the father of geography Ptolemy calls Jutland Cimvria, in honor of the formidable German people, which terrified the Roman legions at the turn of our era.
Invaders of England
We have already mentioned above that Denmark has held almost all of England in its hands for more than a hundred years. The conquest began under King Harald Sinezub, in whose honor, by the way, the well-known Bluetooth was named by everyone, and continued under his heir Knut the Great. But although now the inhabitants of Foggy Albion had to suffer under the yoke of harsh Danes, fed by the stingy land of Jutland, let us look at the English themselves.
History often has unpredictable and ironic twists, and this case is no exception. After all, the descendants of the Saxon, Angle and Jute tribes became subjugated - England itself was named in honor of the latter, Jutland in honor of the third, although the first tribes were the driving force of the Saka conquest of the island in the fifth century. And they all came to the territory of the British Isles precisely from Denmark, from where they were driven out by the ancestors of the Danes. It turns out that England was conquered by the Jutlanders twice - the Saxons conquered the Celtic-Roman population for the first time, and then the latter suffered from the Danes. The Irony of Fate?
Jutland tribes
Contemporaries of the Saxons from the Jutland peninsula, the Utes and the Angles, also followed back in the fifth century into the territory of England, leaving their native expanses under the onslaught of the Danes. Natives of the harsher conditions of Scandinavia, although they were also Germanic tribes, more correctly disposed of the local lands. When the Saxons were defeated by the troops of Charlemagne, the Danes built large defensive shafts and did not lose their independence.
Danish history and modernity
The darkness of the Middle Ages, frightening and interesting, fills the Jutland Peninsula. The state carefully takes care to preserve the historical heritage, supports museums and research centers. No wonder the father of modern scientific archeology Oscar Montelius worked in Denmark.