Grosse pierre de Jelling, Rouen

The Jelling stones are two runic stones located in Jelling, Denmark. They are inscribed since 1994 on the Unesco World Heritage list. They consist of the small Jelling stone and the large Jelling stone.

The small and the big stone of Jelling were erected in the 10th century, respectively by king Gorm the Elder and Harald the Blue Tooth, his son. Mainly used to honor the deceased, rune stones were erected everywhere on the Scandinavian territory. The small Jelling stone honors Thyra of Denmark, the wife of King Gorm, while the large stone, erected much later, highlights the lives of Harald the Blue Tooth's parents, his conquest of Denmark and Norway, and the conversion of the Danes to Christianity. These memorials are set in a period of social and cultural change, with the arrival of the Christian faith and the conversion to this new religion.

The Jelling stones are important sources in the study of medieval Scandinavia, because of their artistic style, the writing used, their content, the context in which they were erected, as well as their respective patrons.