Models of Gamla (Old) Uppsala

The museum in Gamla Uppsala had models of the old community from a thousand years ago. Here are some of them.
One side of the community and of the cemetery of grave mounds, with the largest mounds in the rear, behind the Great Hall (king's/chieftain's home), and with the smaller houses between it and the more numerous smaller burial mounds.
The Christian church is in the rear, with a tower.
The pagan outdoor temple, made in a grove of sacred trees (in the last set of photos, the sacred central tree in this grove was shown as having the skins of animals and men hanging from it), is shown behind the early Christian church (with tower). They were contemporaneous. The terraced farm fields are in front, with homes at the bottom and on middle levels, and grave mounds just past them, near the sacred grove. Across the stream is a funeral pyre, smoke rising, with more burial mounds, houses, and the largest of the mounds nearby.

A different angle on the same scene. More homes and burial mounds, showing how close the living were to the dead.

A model of the Great Hall, I took a picture of it becausse it reminded me of Edoras, the hall of the Lord of Rohan. Certainly Tolkien modeled his Riders of Rohan on ancient Scandinavian culture, of which he was a student.