Claudia Baittinger

Historian Cecilie Nielsen goes on a hunt into a dark and gloomy past - the past of Odin. Perhaps the old god played a far greater role in the birth of Denmark than was previously thought.

In 1921, in the Danish town of Egtved, on the Jutland peninsula, was discovered one of the most important Bronze Age burial sites: the tomb of a girl who lived around 1370 BCE. Who was that girl and what was her daily life like?