Gefion Fountain.

Built in 1908 by Anders Bundgaard and is one of Copenhagen’s largest and most impressive monuments. The main feature is a statue of the Scandinavian goddess Gefion The legend states that the king of Sweden promised to give the goddess as much land as she could plough in one night. Gifion turned her four sons into oxen, harnessed them to a plough and by cock crow had managed to plough a sizeable piece of Sweden which she then threw into the sea to become Zealand leaving behind a hole that became Lake Vänern whose shape is very close to that of Zealand

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