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Priest Cross Hill

Priest Cross Hill

On a small hilltop near Vinderød Church, with a view over Denmark’s largest lake, Arresø, stands a large wooden cross. The cross is raised in memory of the parish’s first Lutheran priest, who according to local legend was murdered here in 1536. A lot of superstition is connected with the cross and the general area.

Paraplyen

Paraplyen

Paraplyen (The Umbrella) is a majestic and foreboding oak tree with a large, umbrella-like crown. It has functioned as a fire-tree for the nearby Skærtoft estate for many generations. The tree was once greatly feared and is said to be the cause of several accidents, including at least one casualty

Louise’s Island

Louise’s Island

This beautiful and mysterious little island in the middle of the Badstue area, is home to one of Denmark’s most spectacular and unknown ghost stories

Knud Lavard’s Haraldsted

Knud Lavard’s Haraldsted

Knud “Canute” Lavard is one of the most important saints of medieval Denmark. Today, however, the large majority of the population only recognizes his name because it adorns several streets throughout the country. But the memory of Knud lives on in the Haraldsted area, outside Ringsted

Kgs. Thisted CE3

Kgs. Thisted CE3

On a clear and sunny summer afternoon in 1940, a then 15-year old boy was walking towards the hill Tisbjerg when he observed the landing of a strange craft and its pilots

Ilsemade Holy Spring

Ilsemade Holy Spring

On the beach of the south-western part of Samsø can be found an old, hollowed-out oak trunk. This is the well of a local sacred spring used for centuries if not millennia

Havfruegrunden

Havfruegrunden

The Mermaid Islet, in Danish “Havfruegrunden”, was a small patch of land once located in the passageway between Slotsholmen and Christianshavn. It got its name because it supposedly was a favored place of mermaids.