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Telia Alsie on Nordborg Lake and in Nordborg town On 21 August and 9 October we participated with the boat in events in Nordborg. Johannes Diederichsen's tractor hitched to a trailer with the boat did the transport, duly supervised by 4-6 members.On the first date, we put the boat in Nordborg lake from the castle grounds. A ramp was made of gravel with the help of the municipality and members. At the last measurement 2 days before the launch, a four-leaf clover led by Arne Madsen realised that a tree had to be cut down. This was approved by the after-school programme and cleared so that we could launch the boat on Saturday. 20 Iron Age-clad guild members sailed back and forth on the lake for 45 minutes. Many spectators on bridges and banks cheered us on, especially when Knud Skov came up with the idea that we could greet the spectators with raised paddles as we glided past. Tilia on Nordborg Lake. The reason for this activity was that Nordborg Municipality was named City of the Year 1999 in the Jyllandsposten campaign. This was celebrated at various events throughout the day, including an award ceremony in the park at Nordborg Castle. The editor-in-chief, Minister of the Interior, county mayor and many other prominent people came to pay tribute to Nordborg Municipality, which had of course turned up with the mayor in the lead to be honoured.In addition to the tile of honour and the right to advertise as City of the Year throughout the year, there was also money for the city. Of the DKK 80,000, DKK 30,000 was to be used for three awards to associations or groups in the municipality that had made the municipality more attractive to live in through their activities.The first portion was awarded to the Hjortspringbådens Guild, and yours truly had to go up to the stands where Bitten Clausen, assisted by Peter Clausen, presented a diploma and a cheque for DKK 10,000. The diploma can be seen in the Linde shipyard.After this festivity, we pulled the boat up Storegade to the square where there used to be coach garages. Here people could see the boat for a couple of hours and shop in our small sales stall where we sold memberships, books, T-shirts, and Hjortspring wine.On 8-9 October, Nordborg Håndværkerforening celebrated its 125th anniversary, and on Saturday we took part in a procession through Storegade to the coach square, where there was a stop. Then along Skomagergade and Bækgade to Ridepladsen. The Hjortspring boat was at the front of the procession, right after the Fire Brigade Band, - as the chairman of the craftsmen's association, Nis Dreyer said: ‘After all, you represent the oldest craft in Nordals’. The parade also consisted of vintage cars, vintage fire engines and festively decorated craftsman cars.Also on this occasion we sold books and T-shirts. 12 books and a single T-shirt were sold.Jens-Jørgen Kjær Rasmussen The initiative award. JyllandsPosten The initiative award The text is:In addition to the City of the Year Award 1999, Nordborg received DKK 30,000 to be awarded with DKK 10,000 annually for the following 3 years. The award is given to a person or an initiative that has been of benefit to the town and which the award committee wishes to reward.In 1999, the award was presented to the Hjortspringbådens Guild for the following reason:You have recreated the Hjortspring boat through volunteer work and great commitment. We have visited you and seen how boats were built 2,300 years ago. You have created a unique attraction for current and future citizens and tourists in the municipality.Signed by the chairman of the award committee. If you have any comments on this article, you can send an e-mail to the  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..Please do not overwrite the existing text in the subject field, I need information to see which article you are writing from. Feel free to add your topic afterwards. Language The text in this article has been translated from Danish to English using the free DeepL translation programme.
I SEE IT HAPPEN The Hjortspring boat is at sea.A private paddler tells the story. By Ole Møller-Olsen The big day finally arrived. Not Constitution Day 1999, but Saturday 29 May, when the ‘secret’ test was to take place.The boat was beautiful - impressive - and what a lot of hard-working heads and hands had done to get us to this point. I can safely express my admiration, because even though I have been a member of the Guild over the years and followed the events with interest, it is not my fault that a boat came out of it.Do you remember the form we were given in 1991, where we had to tick off what we might want to contribute? I confidently ticked the bottom box ‘test the boat’ - it was the thing I thought I knew the most about. The first time I rowed in Dyvig was in the spring of 1950. Now 49 years later, I helped paddle a 2,350-year-old boat to success in the same place.It was a great experience.When I looked through the list of crew names, it struck me that I was probably the oldest on the team. Maybe the captain would be interested, so I let him know.Do you know what he replied?‘Someone has to be’, which is as true as it gets, and now I just keep paddling along. The boat on its carriage along Ellehave.Foto: H.P. Rasmussen A few of us raised our eyebrows when we saw the shiny new heavyweight boat trailer. But you have to say that it works effortlessly as intended. It's just lucky that it's the boat and not the trolley we have to lift.Careful preparations were made to lift the boat while it was still indoors and everyone was equal. The captain and helmsman were also holding the ends of an old fire hose. The command was ‘Down on your knees, tighten the hose and straighten up’. 19 men and 1 woman lifted in a group with the hose over the ‘nearest shoulder’ and with a fairly straight back. When we had passed the gate, the processed wood could see the light of day for the first time. Now it turned out that the trolley was a little higher than we had lifted it to. But then they just commanded ‘a little higher’, and it's still a mystery to me how that was supposed to happen. But up it came - probably mostly with good will on all sides. It certainly wasn't what we were going to be stranded on.Do you remember how nice the weather was that day, and how we just rolled up and down, excited to get the boat in its element? First time in the water. Happy future sailors.Foto: H.P. Rasmussen And what a relief when it floated, light and elegant, and didn't take in much water. The captain forgot all his dignity and eagerly took part in sealing a few obvious holes. Then came the big moment, after we had boarded two by two in a carefully planned sequence. Off we went out onto the flat water - we'll leave the waves for another time.Now it was the boat that carried us. There were no problems with 20 people, and even though we're sitting a little high, the boat is surprisingly stable.What a blissful feeling!At this point, the captain may have realised that we had honestly forgotten to agree on how 18 undisciplined deer jumpers would suddenly serve the paddlers in an efficient, harmonious and preferably spectacular style. But is it really so strange - our thoughts were centred on the basics: is the boat tight, how does it sit on the water and how is the balance? With these things in order, you do a test to see what's missing.But we managed to get really good at paddling in connection with the official launch the following week. At the same time, the helmsman realised that he's not the one who decides where we go. He split the steering oar in an attempt to assert himself.The official launch was a bit of an anticlimax for several of the guild members, but a festive spectacle in a kaleidoscope of home-made Iron Age costumes, several thousand interested travelling guests and a good deal of rain.There were wind players who just managed to get to the front of the procession, in front of the chief and the drummer, the goddess of the sea standing tall in a 2-wheeled cart and a lively male choir forming the rear, singing and chanting an ode to the price of the boat. Listening to speeches. Foto: H.P. Rasmussen Speeches were made - and in a clever twist, it was the boat itself that gave the keynote speech. This makes it easier to say something nice about the guild and its members. But it was all deserved! There were greetings from friends of the guild and, not least, words of appreciation from the National Museum's representatives - the blue stamp or perhaps a kind of blue flag? When we paddled out there in shallow water in front of all the people, the shoreline was packed with spectators - nothing like this has ever been seen in Dyvig. There was spontaneous applause all round - an unusual tribute to the result of many years of skilful work - Hjortspringbåden anno 1999 - who in his speech thanked the guild for its new life. ‘Now I am free.’ Those who built this boat can be proud of what they have created. But to put it bluntly: with all the talent and knowledge we have here on Als, now 2,350 years after the sacrifice of the old boat in Hjortspring Mose, it should of course be possible to build an exact and functional replica with the necessary will and stubbornness. Even using the primitive tools and equipment of the time.But was anyone clapping their hands when the real, old paddling warriors set out on the raid that would, by some twist of fate, land them in an Alsatian marsh? Or perhaps the more peaceful traders who just didn't have any luck?Whoever they were, their achievement as boat builders is still the greatest - imagine that they could! If you have any comments on this article, you can send an e-mail to the  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..Please do not overwrite the existing text in the subject field, I need information to see which article you are writing from. Feel free to add your topic afterwards. Language The text in this article has been translated from Danish to English using the free DeepL translation programme.
This section contains descriptions of some of the trips we've had with Tilia over the years, mainly accounts of individuals' experiences of being a guest on an Iron Age boat. On Nordborg Lake. Language The text in this article has been translated from Danish to English using the free DeepL translation programme.
1993 Vikingeskibshallen in Roskilde It was the first time we had an exhibition that also included the stern piece. Our two parts of a Hjortspring boat were exhibited together with a replica of a sewn canoe from Tomoko in the Solomon Islands. The test pieces in the Viking Ship Hall in Roskilde together with a sewn canoe from the Solomon Islands. Foto: H.P. Rasmussen. See detailed description in the section: Development of working methods Dyvig Setting up an exhibition in a tent on the beach in Dyvig. Foto: H.P. Rasmussen. In a tent on the beach at Dyvig, preparations are being made for an exhibition with the finished centrepiece and the beginnings of the stempiece.The pictures on the back wall are painted by Birgit Valbjørn. They show her interpretation of the sacrifice in Hjortspring Mose in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The paintings now adorn our lecture theatre at Linde Yard. 1994 Munich Jørgen Jessen shows a couple of future crew members how to paddle.. Foto: Aage Jensen. Our two, now finished, test pieces were on display at the Exempla 94 craft fair in Munich. 1998 Hjemsted Oldtidspark The two test pieces are placed at the right distance from each other. In the display cases are examples of our replicas of some found parts from the Hjortspring find. Foto: Aage Jensen. In Hjemsted Oldtidspark there were some houses from the "Iron Age". Here we demonstrated our craft.Foto: Aage Jensen. From April - September, our full-scale specimens were the centrepiece of a special exhibition in Hjemsted Oldtidspark about the Hjortspring find, along with some of our weapon replicas and tools. At Easter, we participated as working Iron Age craftsmen in one of the "Iron Age houses" on the park grounds. Hjemsted Oldtidspark was a museum for the early Iron Age and an adventure park. Unfortunately, it is now a thing of the past. 2005 Simrishamn From Newsletter 2005-02 Saturday 30 April was the day we were going to Simrishamn with the rendezvous piece. We (Jørgen Kjær Rasmussen, Knud Andersen and Jørgen Jessen) started at 7.00 am from Nordborg and had to catch the ferry at 8.00 am. The trip across Funen, Zealand and Skåne went well, there were three of us and there's not much difference between Denmark and Sweden. At 3pm we arrived at the museum in Simrishamn, where we were greeted by Martin Stoltze, who welcomed us and offered us coffee and cake. Then we drove a little outside the city where we saw rock carvings. Back in the city, we found out where we were going to sleep. The hotel was right opposite the museum, so it was easy. At 6.30pm, the three of us met up again, went out for dinner and went for a walk around the city. Even though there was a torchlight procession ending with a bonfire, we went back to the hotel to sleep. We had been on the road since 7am and had travelled 345 km.On Sunday morning we met with the director of the museum, Lena Alebo, who showed us around the museum and told us a little about the city. It was a Hanseatic city and had its heyday in the days of sailing ships. After the tour, we said goodbye to Lena and invited her to Holm to see our shipyard. At 10 o'clock we started the trip home and by 6 o'clock we were back home after a successful trip - and what did we learn from it? Already in Fynshav, Danish and German tourists came to see what we were doing, so it was good that we didn't have to take more ferries, otherwise we probably wouldn't have reached Sweden in one day. On the ferry, there was talk that it was a boat from the Viking Age. It made you tingle a little, but you can't interfere in other people's conversations. That's a little bit about the Sweden trip.Jørgen Jessen The stem piece in the museum shop. Foto: Knud Andersen Rock carving.Foto: Knud Andersen The handicraft exhibitions at Sønderborg Castle For many years we have participated in the annual handicraft exhibitions at Sønderborg Castle. The set-up was always almost the same: In the castle courtyard, by the northern stair tower, we had the centrepiece mounted on a trailer and a tent with a working smithy where guests could try forging a nail.In the knights' hall, or in one of the antechambers, we exhibited our handicrafts and demonstrated some different techniques. Nails are being forged in the castle courtyard.
Over the years, our test pieces and - of course - Tilia have been exhibited both in Denmark and abroad. The test pieces Vikingeskibshallen in Roskilde, 1993Dyvig, 1993Munich, Germany, 1994Hjemsted Oldtidspark, 1998Simrishamn in Sweden, 2005The stem piece has been exhibited several times at the handicraft exhibitions at Sønderborg Castle Tilia Alsie It's been quite easy to have our test pieces on display here at home, a couple of trailers are enough. It's quite different with Tilia, she's long and expensive. It's an expensive transport, so it's more limited how many trips we've made.Gottorp Castle in Germany, 2003 - 2004Frankfurt in Germany, 2007 Language The text in this article has been translated from Danish to English using the free DeepL translation programme.
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