Kilde means spring

or in genealogy the source of information.

ROS could mean horse which was a holy animal in Viking times.

The ancient prechristian centre of power was LEJRE close by

pictures include the Iron age research centre
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-885...

lejre means camp in modern Danish

A midsummer party http://www.blotgilde.dk/harreskov/billeder/MB2001.htm

possibly on a viking grave with the stones outlining a ship

Sct Hans
St John's mass

the longest day

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&q=Sct...+

leads to Danish babies born in MARCH

enjoy

Hugh W

and the most common names -sen all mean son of :-

oh yes

RUC Roskilde University Centre

The cathedral is the burial place of kings and queens and had a rich treasury.

Pirates were a problem so 5 old viking ships were filled with stones and sunk in the fjord to make the channel more difficult

One turned up to be made of IRISH oak

When the 5 were raised it led to the museum and the building of fullsize copies


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=roskil...

local archives http://www.roskildebib.dk/lokal/lara/lara.htm

Roskilde Festival is the major rock event of the Scandinavian year


http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_e...


enjoy

Hugh W

http://www.ra.dk/


the Amt or county today

http://gis.ra.dk/

http://gis.ra.dk/arealinfo/gis/tm_mappage.asp?seektype=start...

includes KØGE

if you zoom in much more detail include land registration numbers

MATRIKUL in red to identify ancestral homes via census

As I recall Roskilde is derrived from Roars Kilde
(Roar's Spring).