Gefion Ceiling in Frederiksborg

Gefion Ceiling in Frederiksborg

The ceiling is painted with “Gefion plows the earth in Sweden”. According to legend, Gefion temporarily changed her sons into bulls to plough the island of Zealand (on which Copenhagen is located) out of Sweden, where the hole left behind is now lake Mälaren.

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