Gørlev

Gørlev is a town with a population of 2,482 (1 January 2011) on the west coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark, belonging to Kalundborg Municipality in Region Sjælland. To the west are Musholm (Mosses Island) Bay (Musholm Bugt), the Great Belt (Storebælt)— the strait which separates Zealand from the island of Funen), and Jammerland Bay (Jammerland Bugt). The municipality is home to a number of interesting sites, including Stone Age passage graves (Rævehøj Passage Grave near the town of Dalby) and Bronze Age mounds. In Gørlev Church's entryway are two Viking Age runestones, the Gørlev Stones (Gørlevstenene), that show the entire rune alphabet, the younger futhark. The first runestone is dated to the early 800s, and was...