Mammen is a village in

Viborg Municipality Viborg municipality is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,421.04 km2, and has a population of 94,622 (1 April 2014). Søren Pape Pou ...

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7 km north of

Bjerringbro Bjerringbro is a railway town located at the railway line between Viborg and Randers and lying on both sides of the Gudenå (''River Guden''). Until 1 January 2007 it was the municipal seat of the former Bjerringbro Municipality and today, with ...

. Mammen is recognized as the production site of ''Mammen cheese'', a well known brand in Denmark.

Mammen chamber tomb

The Mammen area was the finding site of the famous and rich ''Mammen chamber tomb''; a

Viking Age The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Ger ...

chamber tomb, complete with the remains and offerings of a wealthy

magnate The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...

burial in the winter of 970-71 AD. The tomb was opened in 1868, when a farmer began digging away at the mound of Bjerringhøj. At about the same time, a hoard was unearthed close by in a gravel quarry.The hoard from Mammen
The National Museum of Denmark The various objects of both finds later gave name to the so-called

Mammen style Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the 8th-11th centuries ...

, an art phase typical of

Scandinavia Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion#Europe, subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, ...

. The objects are displayed at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. File:Viking attire and jewellery - VIKING exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark - Photo The National Museum of Denmark (9066249362).jpg, Reconstructed attire and objects from the Mammen chamber tomb and hoard. The golden chest is a replica of the lost

Cammin Chest Cammin may refer to: * Cammin, Rostock, a municipality in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany * Cammin (Burg Stargard), a village in the town of Burg Stargard, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany *the German name for Kamień Pomors ...

and not from this find, but crafted in the Mammen style. File:EB1911 Scandinavian Civilization - axe inlaid with silver.jpg, Silver adorned iron axe, probably a ceremonial weapon.

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