Ship-Shaped Burial Of Tjelvar – Legendary First Man Who Brought Fire To Gotland

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Tjelvar’s tomb is a ship set from the Bronze Age located near the east coast of Gotland and almost directly east of Visby, in the parish of Boge on the island.

Tjelvar’s burial site is 18 meters long and 5 meters wide. In the Late Bronze Age, around 1100 – 500 BC, graves were built in the form of ships with relays of erected stones. On Gotland, there are about 350 such graves, and traditionally, only one grave is found in each ship set.

However, often, several ship sets were adjacent to each other. Sometimes they were even built together with common stones in the fore or aft. The length of the ships usually varied. Tjelvar’s grave is not as famous as the enigmatic Ales Stenar (in English, Ale’s Stones) that are often referred to as  Sweden’s Stonehenge of The North’.

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