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href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5" title="Даневірке – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Даневірке" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannevirke" title="Dannevirke – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Dannevirke" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danewerk" title="Danewerk – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Danewerk" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9" title="دانویرک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دانویرک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danavirki" title="Danavirki – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Danavirki" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%94" title="דנווירגה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דנווירגה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%93%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%A0%E1%83%99%E1%83%94" title="დანევირკე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="დანევირკე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5" title="Даневирке – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Даневирке" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%83" title="دانيفيرك – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="دانيفيرك" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Danevirke" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke" title="Danevirke – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Danevirke" 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style="display:none">Show map of Schleswig-Holstein</span></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Danevirke&params=54_28_N_9_27_E_region:DE-SH_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">54°28′N</span> <span class="longitude">9°27′E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / 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style="padding-right:1em">Open to<br />the public</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Condition</th><td class="infobox-data">Ruin</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Site history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Built</th><td class="infobox-data">Before 500 AD. <br />Multiple later expansions.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Built by</th><td class="infobox-data">Unknown initiator. <br />Expanded by King Gudfred, Harald Bluetooth, Canute IV, Valdemar I and others.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">In use</th><td class="infobox-data">974,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1848, 1864.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Materials</th><td class="infobox-data">Earth, timber, stone, bricks</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151960987">body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox table{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox caption{display:table-caption}</style> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-top:1px #aaa solid;padding-top:0.4em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Danewerk_Krummwall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Danewerk_Krummwall.jpg/220px-Danewerk_Krummwall.jpg" 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title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data">Archaeological Border Complex of <a href="/wiki/Hedeby" title="Hedeby">Hedeby</a> and the Danevirke</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site#Selection_criteria" title="World Heritage Site">Criteria</a></th><td class="infobox-data category">Cultural: (iii), (iv)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Reference</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1553">1553</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.3em;">Inscription</th><td class="infobox-data">2018 (42nd <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Committee" title="World Heritage Committee">Session</a>)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Danevirke</b> or <b>Danework</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (modern <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a> spelling: <i>Dannevirke</i>; in <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Norse language">Old Norse</a>: <i>Danavirki</i>, in <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>: <i>Danewerk</i>, literally meaning <i><a href="/wiki/Earthworks_(archaeology)" title="Earthworks (archaeology)">earthwork</a> of the Danes</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is a system of <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a> fortifications in <a href="/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig-Holstein</a>, Germany. This historically important linear defensive earthwork across the neck of the <a href="/wiki/Jutland" title="Jutland">Cimbrian peninsula</a> was initiated by the <a href="/wiki/Danes_(Germanic_tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Danes (Germanic tribe)">Danes</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age_Scandinavia" title="Iron Age Scandinavia">Nordic Iron Age</a> about AD 650. It was later expanded multiple times during Denmark's <a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a> and <a href="/wiki/High_Middle_Ages" title="High Middle Ages">High Middle Ages</a>. The Danevirke was last used for military purposes in 1864 during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War" title="Second Schleswig War">Second War of Schleswig</a>. </p><p>The Danevirke consists of several walls, trenches and the Schlei Barrier. The walls stretch for 30 km, from the former Viking trade centre of <a href="/wiki/Hedeby" title="Hedeby">Hedeby</a> near <a href="/wiki/Schleswig,_Schleswig-Holstein" title="Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein">Schleswig</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_Sea" title="Baltic Sea">Baltic Sea</a> coast in the east to the extensive marshlands in the west of the peninsula. One of the walls (named <i>Østervolden</i>), between the <a href="/wiki/Schlei" title="Schlei">Schlei</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eckernf%C3%B6rde" title="Eckernförde">Eckernförde</a> inlets, defended the <a href="/wiki/Schwansen" title="Schwansen">Schwansen</a> peninsula. </p><p>According to written sources, work on the Danevirke was started by the Danish King <a href="/wiki/Gudfred" title="Gudfred">Gudfred</a> in 808. Fearing an invasion by the <a href="/wiki/Carolingian_Empire" title="Carolingian Empire">Franks</a>, who had conquered heathen <a href="/wiki/Frisia" title="Frisia">Frisia</a> over the previous 100 years and <a href="/wiki/Old_Saxony" title="Old Saxony">Old Saxony</a> in 772 to 804, Godfred began work on an enormous structure to defend his realm, separating the <a href="/wiki/Jutland" title="Jutland">Jutland</a> <a href="/wiki/Peninsula" title="Peninsula">peninsula</a> from the northern extent of the Frankish empire. However, the Danes were also in conflict with the <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxons</a> south of Hedeby during the Nordic Iron Age, and recent archaeological excavations have revealed that the Danevirke was initiated much earlier than King Gudfred's reign, at least as far back as 500 AD and probably well before that.<sup id="cite_ref-museum_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museum-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of its historical importance and testimony to the defense of trade routes in the Viking Age, the Danevirke and the nearby Viking town of <a href="/wiki/Hedeby" title="Hedeby">Hedeby</a> were inscribed on the <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_List" class="mw-redirect" title="World Heritage List">World Heritage List</a> in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-unesco_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unesco-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Symbolism">Symbolism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Symbolism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thyra_Danebod.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Thyra_Danebod.gif/220px-Thyra_Danebod.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Thyra_Danebod.gif/330px-Thyra_Danebod.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Thyra_Danebod.gif/440px-Thyra_Danebod.gif 2x" data-file-width="690" data-file-height="495" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lorenz_Fr%C3%B8lich" title="Lorenz Frølich">Lorenz Frølich</a>'s impression of <a href="/wiki/Thyra" title="Thyra">Thyra Dannebod</a> ordering the foundation of the Danevirke.</figcaption></figure> <p>Legend has it that Queen <a href="/wiki/Thyra" title="Thyra">Thyra</a> ordered the Danevirke to be built. She was the wife of the first historically recognized king of Denmark, <a href="/wiki/Gorm_the_Old" title="Gorm the Old">Gorm the Old</a> (reign c. 936 – c. 958). </p><p>With the emergence of <a href="/wiki/National_state" class="mw-redirect" title="National state">national states</a> in Europe during the 19th Century, the Danevirke became a powerful symbol for Denmark and for the idea of a unique <a href="/wiki/Danes" title="Danes">Danish people</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danish_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Danish culture">Danish culture</a>. Throughout the nineteenth century, Denmark and Germany struggled politically and militarily for possession of the territory variously known as <i>Sønderjylland</i> or <i>Slesvig</i> by the Danes and <i>Schleswig</i> by the Germans. Two wars were fought, the <a href="/wiki/First_Schleswig_War" title="First Schleswig War">First Schleswig War</a> (1848–1851) and the <a href="/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War" title="Second Schleswig War">Second Schleswig War</a> (1864), eventually resulting in a Danish defeat and subsequent German annexation. In this hostile context, the Danevirke played an important role, at first as a mental cultural barrier against Germany, but soon also as a concrete military fortification, when it was strengthened with cannon emplacements and entrenchments in 1850 and again in 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-Dannevirke_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dannevirke-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 19th Century <i>Dannevirke</i> was adopted as the title of several Danish nationalist journals dealing specifically with the question of Danish autonomy vis-à-vis Germany, the most notable of these being published by <a href="/wiki/N._F._S._Grundtvig" title="N. F. S. Grundtvig">N. F. S. Grundtvig</a> in 1816–19. In earlier times, the Danevirke had indeed defined a cultural and <a href="/wiki/Language" title="Language">linguistic</a> border between Danish and German <a href="/wiki/Fiefdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiefdom">fiefdoms</a>, but the cultural and linguistic frontiers had gradually moved north, and by the 19th century territory as far north as <a href="/wiki/Flensburg" title="Flensburg">Flensburg</a> was predominantly German-speaking, but remained part of Denmark.<sup id="cite_ref-Dannevirke_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dannevirke-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeological_record">Archaeological record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Archaeological record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Archaeological excavations in 1969–1975 established, with the help of <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">dendrochronology</a>, that the main structure of the Danevirke had been built in three phases between AD 737 and 968. It is, therefore, contemporary with <a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke" title="Offa's Dyke">Offa's Dyke</a> on the border between <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, another great defensive structure of the late 8th century. </p><p>New <a href="/wiki/Carbon-14_dating" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon-14 dating">carbon-14 dating</a> in 2013 has revealed that the second stage started around 500 AD, and the oldest fortifications are even older than that.<sup id="cite_ref-museum_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-museum-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Previous carbon-14 dating had dated some of the early constructions to the second half of the 7th century, and <a href="/wiki/Dendrochronology" title="Dendrochronology">dendrochronology</a> also suggests that the examined constructions began not very long after 737, about 70 years before the reign of king <a href="/wiki/Gudfred" title="Gudfred">Gudfred</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gyldendal_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gyldendal-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Size">Size</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_danavirki.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Map_danavirki.JPG/170px-Map_danavirki.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Map_danavirki.JPG/255px-Map_danavirki.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Map_danavirki.JPG/340px-Map_danavirki.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The Danevirke (shown in red) on the 16th century <i><a href="/wiki/Carta_Marina" class="mw-redirect" title="Carta Marina">Carta Marina</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Olaus_Magnus" title="Olaus Magnus">Olaus Magnus</a>, published in 1539.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Danevirke is about 30 kilometres (19 mi) long overall, with a height varying between 3.6 and 6 metres (12 and 20 ft). During the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, the structure was reinforced with <a href="/wiki/Palisade" title="Palisade">palisades</a> and masonry walls, and was used by Danish kings as a gathering point for Danish military excursions, including a series of <a href="/wiki/Northern_Crusades" title="Northern Crusades">crusader</a> raids against the <a href="/wiki/Slavic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavic peoples">Slavs</a> of the south Baltic. In particular, the 12th-century King <a href="/wiki/Valdemar_I_of_Denmark" title="Valdemar I of Denmark">Valdemar the Great</a> reinforced parts of the Danevirke with a brick wall, which enabled a continued military use of this strategically important structure. The reinforced parts of the structure are consequently known in Danish as <i>Valdemarsmuren</i> (lit: Valdemar's wall).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stages_in_the_building_of_the_Danevirke">Stages in the building of the Danevirke</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Stages in the building of the Danevirke"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dannevirke.english.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Dannevirke.english.png/240px-Dannevirke.english.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Dannevirke.english.png/360px-Dannevirke.english.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Dannevirke.english.png/480px-Dannevirke.english.png 2x" data-file-width="2045" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Map showing Danevirke/Danewerk and the <a href="/wiki/H%C3%A6rvejen" title="Hærvejen">Hærvejen/Ochsenweg</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eider_Treene2.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Eider_Treene2.gif/220px-Eider_Treene2.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Eider_Treene2.gif/330px-Eider_Treene2.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Eider_Treene2.gif/440px-Eider_Treene2.gif 2x" data-file-width="1244" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Map of the rivers <a href="/wiki/Eider_(river)" title="Eider (river)">Eider</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treene_(river)" title="Treene (river)">Treene</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Rheider_Au" title="Rheider Au">Rheider Au</a></i>, and <a href="/wiki/Schlei" title="Schlei">Schlei bay</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>Danevirke 1</b> – Hovedvolden ("the main <a href="/wiki/Defensive_wall" title="Defensive wall">rampart</a>"), Nordvolden ("the north rampart"), Østervolden ("the east rampart")<br />The first Danevirke was built in five stages, starting about 650, according to <a href="/wiki/Carbon-14_dating" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon-14 dating">carbon-14 dating</a>. The first three stages were simple ramparts of soil, and the fourth stage was a palisade rampart with heavy timber front, built in 737. In the final stages the timber palisade was reinforced with a heavy stone wall around the timber.<sup id="cite_ref-Gyldendal_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gyldendal-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Work is said to have been started by <a href="/wiki/Ongendus" title="Ongendus">Angantyr</a>, and continued by <a href="/wiki/Sigfred" title="Sigfred">Siegfried</a>, and ended by <a href="/wiki/Gudfred" title="Gudfred">Guðfrið</a> according to annales in 808. <ul><li>Hovedvolden: From <a href="/wiki/Rheider_Au" title="Rheider Au">Rejde Å</a> (now called Rheider Au) to a small lake called Dannevirke Sø. It was the main segment of the Danevirke. About 2 m high and 12 m wide.</li> <li>Nordvolden: From the northeastern side of Dannevirke Sø, and further north about 7 km.</li> <li>Østervolden: About 3.3 km long, and protecting <a href="/wiki/Schwansen" title="Schwansen">Schwansen</a>.</li> <li>A 900 m long submerged construction in <a href="/wiki/Slien" class="mw-redirect" title="Slien">Slien</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><b>Danevirke 2</b> – Kovirke ("cow-work")/Kograben ("cow-moat" or "district moat")<br />Built either by Guðfrið or by <a href="/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth" title="Harald Bluetooth">Harald Bluetooth</a> (if it is the work mentioned as newly made in the <a href="/wiki/Franks" title="Franks">Frankish</a> royal annals in 808, then Harald did not build it) it stretched from the Rheide Å about 7 km to a southern extension of the <a href="/wiki/Schlei" title="Schlei">Schlei</a> bay which is now a lake called Selker Noor. Its palisade was about 3 m high, and was a little more solid than that on the first ramparts. The bank of earth behind the palisade was about 2 m high and 7 m wide. It had a V-shaped <a href="/wiki/Moat" title="Moat">moat</a>, 4 m wide and 3 m deep.<br />The construction period of this rampart would have been some time between 770 and 970.<sup id="cite_ref-Gyldendal_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gyldendal-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Danevirke 3</b> – Hovedvolden/Hauptwall/"main rampart", Krumvolden/Krummwall/"curved rampart", Buevolden/Bogenwall/"bow rampart"), Dobbeltvolden/Doppelwall/"double rampart", Forbindelsesvolden ("the connecting rampart")/Margarethenwall ("Margret's rampart")<br />Hovedvolden was expanded, so that it was now about 5 m high and about 20 m wide. Krumvolden was built through the Rheide Å, and overlapped with Hovedvolden. Forbindelsesvolden closed a gap between Halvkredsvolden ("the semicircle rampart", a bank that protected <a href="/wiki/Hedeby" title="Hedeby">Hedeby</a>) and Hovedvolden near Dannevirke Sø. Buevolden and Dobbeltvolden protected an important road junction. This wall is connected to most of the building work is attributed to <a href="/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth" title="Harald Bluetooth">Harald Bluetooth</a>. <a href="/wiki/Arild_Hvitfeldt" class="mw-redirect" title="Arild Hvitfeldt">Arild Hvitfeldt</a>'s <i>Danmarks Riges Krønike</i> adds a little detail to the extension of the Danevirke in that time period. "Then summoned (Queen) <a href="/wiki/Thyra" title="Thyra">Thyra</a> (wife of <a href="/wiki/Gorm_the_Old" title="Gorm the Old">Gorm the Old</a>) Danes from all the kingdom's regions to meet at the border and under her supervision they built a wall of earth and timber from Slien over the moors to Trene. The Scanians received the western section from Karlegat to Trene. Zealanders and Funen dwellers received the section east from Slien (Schlei bay) to Karlegat. Jutlanders provided provisions to the whole army." This would place Thyra's extension sometime before 940. Forbindelsesvolden was attacked by the <a href="/wiki/Saxons" title="Saxons">Saxons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ottonian_dynasty" title="Ottonian dynasty">Ottonian dynasty</a> in 974.</li> <li><b>Danevirke 4</b> – Hovedvolden/Hauptwall/"main rampart".<br />Reinforcement on the Main Wall finished in 954, and a new Forbindelsevold build from 964 to 968. <a href="/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth" title="Harald Bluetooth">Harald Bluetooth</a> is thought to be the main constructor.<sup id="cite_ref-Gyldendal_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gyldendal-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Danevirke 5</b> – Forbindelsesvolden, Krumvolden, and Hovedvolden<br />Under <a href="/wiki/Canute_IV_of_Denmark" title="Canute IV of Denmark">Canute IV of Denmark</a> (1080–86) Denmark was at war with the German empire. The Danevirke was strengthened at the beginning of the 12th century: the moats were deepened and the ramparts were made higher. A granite boulder palisade wall was built on a part of Hovedvolden.</li> <li><b>Danevirke 6</b> – Hovedvolden and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thyraborg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thyraborg (page does not exist)">Thyraborg</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Valdemar_I_of_Denmark" title="Valdemar I of Denmark">Valdemar I</a> fortified the rest of Hovedvolden with the famous "Valdemar-wall", a 7-m high wall of stones in mortar on a granite boulder base, propped up with buttresses and covered with tiles. This was a large reinforcement, and doubtless deterred many who tried to send an army northwards through <a href="/wiki/Jutland" title="Jutland">Jutland</a>. It was the last true reinforcement of the ramparts. Later Thyraborg castle was built.</li></ul> <p>The Danevirke began to lose its purpose in the 14th century, owing both to the expense of manning it and to the development of <a href="/wiki/Ballista" title="Ballista">ballistas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trebuchet" title="Trebuchet">trebuchets</a>, and similar siege engines. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_and_Second_Schleswig_Wars">First and Second Schleswig Wars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: First and Second Schleswig Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_Schleswig_War">First Schleswig War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: First Schleswig War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/First_Schleswig_War" title="First Schleswig War">First Schleswig War</a> commenced on 31 March 1848 but Prussia did not become involved until a naval incident on 19 April. Therefore, on 23 April, General <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Graf_von_Wrangel" title="Friedrich Graf von Wrangel">Friedrich von Wrangel</a> marched his 12,000 <a href="/wiki/Prussian_army" class="mw-redirect" title="Prussian army">Prussian troops</a> upon weak Danish resistance at the Danevirke entrenchment and, after a short engagement near the town of <a href="/wiki/Dannewerk" title="Dannewerk">Dannewerk</a>, drove the Danish army into retreat and seized the city of <a href="/wiki/Schleswig" class="mw-redirect" title="Schleswig">Schleswig</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An armistice signed on 2 August 1848 caused the Prussians to evacuate Schleswig-Holstein but did not end the war. Further engagements in the next two years saw fighting in the vicinity of the Danevirke but not directly involving it. Final peace was signed on 8 May 1852. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Schleswig_War">Second Schleswig War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Second Schleswig War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Evacuation_of_Danevirke" title="Evacuation of Danevirke">Evacuation of Danevirke</a></div> <p>The last military use of the Danevirke was during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War" title="Second Schleswig War">Second Schleswig War</a> in 1864. Due especially to the above-mentioned emotive nationalist symbolism, public opinion in Denmark and the Danish military had expected the coming battle to take place along the Danevirke. After centuries of abandonment and decay, the Danevirke fortifications were partially restored, strengthened, and equipped with <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> installations in 1850 and 1861. In the Second War of Schleswig, there was some early <a href="/wiki/Skirmish" class="mw-redirect" title="Skirmish">skirmishing</a> to the south of the Danevirke, but no battle took place at it, as the Danish Commander in Chief, <a href="/wiki/Christian_Julius_De_Meza" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Julius De Meza">General de Meza</a>, withdrew all soldiers to the trenches at <a href="/wiki/Dybb%C3%B8l" title="Dybbøl">Dybbøl</a>, owing to an unexpected threat of being outflanked, as the Schlei and the <a href="/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetlands</a> between the Danevirke and <a href="/wiki/Husum" title="Husum">Husum</a> had frozen solid in a hard winter and could be crossed easily, and the territory immediately south of the Danevirke had been conquered by the advancing German army. This retreat came as a surprise to the Austro-Prussian army, and almost all of the Danish army succeeded in completing the evacuation. It resulted, however, in the abandonment of important pieces of heavy artillery, and it remains a matter of historical debate why the railway to <a href="/wiki/Flensburg" title="Flensburg">Flensburg</a> was never properly used for the evacuation. News of the retreat came as a great shock to Danish public opinion which had considered the Danevirke to be impregnable, and General de Meza was promptly relieved of his command. The Danevirke has remained in German possession ever since.<sup id="cite_ref-Dannevirke_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dannevirke-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_World_War_II">In World War II</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the Allied invasion of <a href="/wiki/Normandy" title="Normandy">Normandy</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> feared that a second Allied invasion might take place through Denmark, and contemplated converting the earthen wall into an anti-tank trench to counter this threat. Had the proposal been implemented, it would have destroyed the structure. </p><p>Hearing of the plans, Danish archaeologist <a href="/w/index.php?title=S%C3%B8ren_Telling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Søren Telling (page does not exist)">Søren Telling</a> – aware that all archaeological investigation was under the ultimate jurisdiction of <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a> chief <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a> – immediately telephoned both the head of the SS's archaeological department, <i>Amt für Ahnenerbe</i> ("Office for ancestral heritage"), and Himmler himself. Telling argued strongly against the destruction of an important remnant of "<a href="/wiki/Aryan" title="Aryan">Aryan</a> civilization" and Himmler authorized him to stop the construction of the anti-tank trench. He informed Telling that a written order would be dispatched but that it would take several days to arrive. Telling then drove to the site and ordered the commanding Wehrmacht officers to immediately stop the construction process. When the local Wehrmacht commander refused, Telling threatened him with reprisals from the SS. Construction was called off and Himmler's written order arrived two days later countering the Wehrmacht's original instructions.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Telling later settled near the site and considered himself a custodian of it until his death in 1968. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has the text of the <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">1911 <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i></a> article "<span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Dannewerk" class="extiw" title="wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Dannewerk">Dannewerk</a></span>".</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Danewerk" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Danewerk">Danewerk</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_walls" title="List of walls">List of walls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall" title="Hadrian's Wall">Hadrian's Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke" title="Offa's Dyke">Offa's Dyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dannevirke" title="Dannevirke">Dannevirke</a> (town in <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6tavirke" title="Götavirke">Götavirke</a> (Geatish Dyke)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Denmark" title="History of Denmark">History of Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Schleswig-Holstein" title="History of Schleswig-Holstein">History of Schleswig-Holstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silesian_Walls" title="Silesian Walls">Silesian Walls</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAndersen2004" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Andersen, H. 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Aarhus University<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=danmarkshistorien.dk&rft.atitle=Broer%2C+Ringborge+og+Dannevirke+%5BBridges%2C+Ringcastles+and+Danevirke%5D&rft.au=Else+Roesdahl&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdanmarkshistorien.dk%2Fperioder%2Fvikingetiden-ca-800-1050%2Fbroer-ringborge-og-dannevirke%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADanevirke" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFehring2014" class="citation book cs1">Fehring, Günter P. 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mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Danevirke&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090224021124/http://www.milhist.dk/start/uk_slesvigwars.htm">Slesvig Wars</a> in English and Danish</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.museen-sh.de/ml/inst_druck.php?s=2&t=1&sparte=museen&pid=&inst=11">Museum at the Danewerk</a></li></ul> <p><i>Parts of this article are based on the articles <a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannevirke" class="extiw" title="da:Dannevirke">Dannevirke</a> and <a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Telling" class="extiw" title="da:Søren Telling">Søren Telling</a> on the Danish Wikipedia, accessed on 23 July 2006.</i> </p> 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