Knarhøj

Knarhøj is a mound just west of Listed on Bornholm, notable in the investigation both for its archaeological past and for a reported meeting that may connect several people to the unidentified man Department Q seeks. A maze was built on the mound in 2006, but the place’s importance in the case rests on much older traces of human activity and on a possible link to June Habersaat and Bjarke Habersaat.

Setting and History

The maze’s owner chose Knarhøj because of the area’s history. The mound stands on the site of Sorte Muld, a Bronze Age settlement where substantial archaeological finds have been made. Among them were several thousand guldgubber: thin pieces of gold embossed with figures and used as offerings. Their number suggested that the settlement had been a cult center.

The gallery owner had also found a sunstone. Assad checked the claim and found that it held up, describing this type of find as previously unknown. The gold offerings and the unusual stone gave the location a distinct archaeological and ritual character, lending substance to the investigators’ interest in Knarhøj rather than leaving it as merely a landmark in the landscape.

The Reported Meeting

The case’s connection to Knarhøj emerged through a report that the young scout Bjarke Habersaat had gone digging there with a man. An odd man encountered on a bench in Listed had also said that June Habersaat met a man at the same time and place, up by the maze. The two accounts place June and Bjarke in the company of a man at Knarhøj, though the conversation does not establish whether they encountered the same person or who he was.

The distinction matters to the investigation. Carl Mørck and Assad considered whether this man might be the man from Ølene, and whether he might also be the man Alberte Goldschmid met. That identification remained conditional: Assad said he knew only that the men could be the same. Knarhøj therefore functions as a point where separate accounts converge, not as proof that they describe one person.

Investigative Significance

The location also helped connect the case’s personal clues to its occult dimension. Rose summarized the emerging possibility that June Habersaat’s meeting with the sought man might link Christian Habersaat’s interest in occult phenomena with the man from Ølene, who had participated in nightly naked dances. Carl recognized that the connection made June’s knowledge important: if the man at Knarhøj was the same person Alberte met, June might be able to tell the investigators more about him.

Knarhøj’s role is thus both evidentiary and suggestive. The mound supplies a specific place for the reported encounters, while Sorte Muld’s cult-center associations and the sunstone echo the investigation’s concerns with occult phenomena. Those echoes sharpen the questions raised by the location, but do not resolve the central uncertainty about the man’s identity.