The Gefion Fountain

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One of Copenhagen´s most imposing monuments, The Gefion Fountain, sculpted by Anders Bundgård and inaugurated in 1908, stands where Langelinie meets the Citadel.

The fountain illustrates the myth of how New Zealand came to be. King Gylfe of Sweden, so it goes promissed the goddess Gefion as much Swedish land as she could plough in one day and one night. Gefion transformed her four sons into oxen and harnessed them to a plough. In the course of a day and a night they ploughed and then bore their load of earth out into the straits, depositing it to become Zealand. In Sweden a large hole remained, now Lake Väneren.