The Gefion Fountain Copenhagen Denmark
The Gefion Fountain Copenhagen Denmark The biggest monument in Copenhagen It express the legend about how Zealand was made The Swedish legend King Gylfe proposed the goddess Gefion that she could take as much land with her as she could plough in one day and night with 4 oxes She transformed her 4 sons into oxes and they ploughed so deep that they lifted the land into the sea The land became Zealand and the hole they left in Sweden became the great lake Väneren The monument was done by Anders Bundgaard and revealed in 1908
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Location: The Gefion Fountain. Copenhagen. Denmark
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