Historian Casper Clemmensen looks at how J.R.R. Tolkien engaged with the early history of Jutland. Tolkien came across a lost saga, almost a forgotten birth story of Denmark, set in what is today eastern Jutland.
The lecture covers the fall of Jutland during the Danish conquest in the Iron Age, the migrations of the Jutes, and the founding of Anglo-Saxon England. It also looks at the idea that Western civilisation was born roughly 350 years before the Viking Age.
