Harald Bluetooth commissioned the larger Jelling Stone in Denmark. Its inscription says that Harald won all Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian.
The monument was raised in the 10th century at Jelling, a royal site associated with Harald’s parents, Gorm the Old and Thyra. The stone includes one of the earliest known depictions of Christ in Scandinavia.
The Jelling monuments combine royal family history, political authority, and Christian conversion. They are sometimes called Denmark’s birth certificate because the inscription presents Harald’s rule and religious transformation as defining achievements, although that nickname is a modern description rather than the stone’s original name.