The Gefion Fountain (Gefionspringvandet) on the harbour front at the Langeliniepark next to the citadel Kastellet in Copenhagen.
The Gefion Fountain (Gefionspringvandet) at the harbour front in the Langeliniepark next to the citadel Kastellet in Copenhagen. The fountain was donated to the city by the Carlsberg Foundation and was designed and sculpted by the Danish artist Anders Bundgaard in the period 1897-99. The surrounding decorations and basins were completed in 1908, where the fountain also was first activated. The fountain depicts a Norse myth about the creation of the Danish island, Zealand. The Swedish King Gylfi promised Gefion the territory she could plough in one night. She turned her four sons into oxen, and the area she ploughed was then thrown into the sea between Sweden and Funen (the island next to Zealand). The area thus missing in Sweden should be either the Swedish lake Vänern or lake Mälaren. (Mälaren according to the saga - Vänaren according to tourist information - probably because it, more or less, has the shape of Zealand and may be a better story). The Gefion Fountain is the largest monument in Copenhagen and is used as a wishing well.
Size: 5128px × 3419px
Location: Langelinieparken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo credit: © Niels Quist / Alamy / Afripics
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