Last Day in Copenhagen

Today is our last day in Copenhagen. We went to Roskilde and Trelleborg which are two very important sites for people wanting to learn more about Viking life in Denmark. Roskilde is the home of the Viking Ship Museum. They have many reconstructions of viking ships in a couple of different buildings. Trelleborg is an old viking fortress from abround 1000 AD (I think). It was amazing to see. They had a replication of a viking hall outside the fortress and I think all of the foundations for the buildings inside the fortress. The fortress is in the shape of two circles, one within the other. The walls of the inner fortress are very high and the guide said they would have been MUCH higher than today due to erosion. There also is a very speep and deep moat surrounding it. The weather today was very strange. First it was cloudy, windy and rained for a little bit, then stopped, then picked up again on the way to Roskilde a few times only for a couple of minutes. When we got to Roskilde it was half sunny and half cloudy, no rain and pretty windy. When we arrived at Trelleborg it was windy and light rain. Then it was just crazy with wind, sun, rain and clouds. Denmark has very interesting weather! I enjoyed the sites very much and took lots of pictures.

Our guide also took us to an old viking settlement a ways from Trelleborg and to a church a little farther. They were so interesting to visit. The church was built in the 11th Century and had some very nice fresco paintings in the entry way. We were sight seeing from around 9 am until about 5:30 pm, we were all very tired! Some of the guys and I originally planned on going to Sweden while the rest of the group went to a ballet, but we voted against it because we were all too tired. Well, I would write more but there is a man pacing behind me anxiously wanting the computer and I've been on here for a while so I better let him use it. Tomorrow we head off to Oslo!