Easily reached from Lejre train station on bus 233, this experimental archaeology centre is truly fascinating. Enthusiastic re-enactors use ancient technology to test out various theories: How many people does it take to build a dolmen? What plants might have been used to dye clothing? And how do you stop the goats eating your reed roof? Kids can let loose in the hands-on Fire Valley, paddling dug-out canoes, attempting to work a fire drill, and chopping up logs using primitive axes.
The landscape at Lejre is simply beautiful, with rolling hills and lake-filled hollows. A 3km-long path takes you past a Viking Age marketplace, prehistoric burial mounds, a dancing labyrinth and the Iron Age village ‘Lethra’, through fields of ancient crops, and down to a sacrificial pool and over precarious staked-wood bridges.
