Sagnlandet Lejre - Carp lake

This lake houses a huge group of Eurasian carp. These are not wild fish, but captive-bred and in fact descendants of a carp group that have lived for centuries in a pond by Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen. These carp came to Lejre in 1994. They can be fed by the guests with feed sold in a nearby gift shop.

I also saw (wild) red-necked grebes and the ubiquitous mallards on the lake. It's also possible to sail the lake in reconstructed Stone Age boats (with a guide) or more modern rowboats (on your own).

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Sagnlandet Lejre is an archaeological open-air museum near the town of Lejre, Denmark. It represents the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Viking Age, smallholdings of the 18th century, and some medieval crafts. It's not a zoological institution per se, and thus I didn't give it its own folder, but it does display 10 species of animal (mostly domestics) where it makes sense in the historical context.

May 2022.