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Textile Processes - Centre for Textile Research Organization Recorded at Sagnlandet Lejre, Historical Archaeological Research and Communication Center, Denmark, August 2012 Land of Legends (Sagnlandet Lejre) The Land of Legends, Centre for Historical-Archaeological Research and Communication (in Danish “Sagnlandet Lejre“ and formerly known as Lejre Experimental Centre) is a 106-acre (43 hectare) archaeological open-air museum situated in the Lejre Municipality, few kilometres west of Roskilde (Denmark). Land of Legends was founded in 1964 by ethnologist Hans-Ole Hansen and comprise reconstructions of an Iron Age village and sacrificial bog (200 BC to 200 AD), a Viking market place (900 AD), a Stone Age campsite (5000 BC), an 18th-century farmstead and various grave monuments. The historical artisan workshops (the pottery, the weaver's workshop, the smithy) work to reproduce (pre-)historical handicraft. Gardens, pastures and fields are the natural scenario of activities and reconstructions. At the Land of
