Lejre

Lejre is a metropolis with a populace of 2,415 in Lejre Municipality at the island of Zealand in east Denmark. It belongs to Region Zealand. The metropolis's Old Norse name turned into Hleior or Hleioargaror. The municipality has an area of 240 km² and a complete populace of ca. 26,989,and the municipal seat is Kirke Hvalso. Lejre become the capital of an Iron Age state every so often known as the "Lejre Kingdom." According to early legends, this became ruled by means of kings of the Skjoldung dynasty, predecessors of the kings of medieval Denmark.

Legends of the kings of Lejre are recognized from some of medieval sources, which include the 12th-century Gesta Danorum written via Saxo Grammaticus and the nameless twelfth-century Chronicon Lethrense, or Chronicle of Lejre. As the home of the Skjolding dynasty cited in Beowulf, Lejre has long been idea to were the actual-international counterpart to Heorot, the gorgeous royal corridor wherein the first part of the motion of that Anglo-Saxon poem takes location. Among different works of the medieval imagination that tell of adventures at Lejre, the first-class recognized is the fourteenth-century Icelandic Saga of King Hrolf Kraki.