Gefion Fountain

Today the weather was fabulous. Wandered into the town for a Segway tour which was great fun & took us round some of the sights in Copenhagen. I learned loads of things about the city.

This is the Fountain of Gefion, donated to the city by the Carlsberg Foundation in 1908. It is the largest monument in Copenhagen and very impressive!

The fountain depicts the mythical story of the creation of the island of Zealand on which Copenhagen is located. The legend appears in Ragnarsdrápa , a 9th-century Skaldic poem recorded in the 13th century Prose Edda, and in Ynglinga saga,

According to Ynglinga saga, the Swedish king Gylfi promised Gefjun the territory she could plow in a night. She turned her four sons into oxen, and the territory they plowed out of the earth was then thrown into the Danish sea between Scania and the island of Fyn. The hole became a lake called Lögrinn and Leginum