Gefion fountain

Grefion fountain - I love it at first sight, without knowing any story / history behind. It's located near the harbour front (the harbour that sits Little Mermaid). Being there and felt the water running in such volume, one word - beautiful. The fountain featured the Nordic Goddess Gerjun plowing 4 oxen.


The fountain depicts the Nordic myth of the creation of the island of Zealand. Legend says that Swedish king promised Gefjun the territory she could plow in a night until dawn. She turned her four sons into oxen, and the territory they plowed out of the earth then become Zealand, which Copenhagen is located.

The fountain is also a wishing 'well'. Guess what wish I made? *wink