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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 (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
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 “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
Kirsten Hvid/Maren Hinds Mound
At Stigsnæs harbor is an old burial mound, around which elves have been observed
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
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
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.