The Gefion Fountain is a large fountain on the harbour front in Copenhagen, Denmark. It features a large-scale group of oxen pulling a plow and being driven by the Norse goddess Gefjon. It is located in Nordre Toldbod area next to Kastellet and immediately south of Langelinie.
The Gefion fountain
Anders Bundgaard working on the fountain
People strolling at the Gefion Fountain: Painting by Paul Gustav Fischer
The Gefion fountain
In Norse mythology, Gefjon is a goddess associated with ploughing, the Danish island of Zealand, the legendary Swedish king Gylfi, the legendary Danish king Skjöldr, foreknowledge, her oxen children, and virginity. Gefjon is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; in the works of skalds; and appears as a gloss for various Greco-Roman goddesses in some Old Norse translations of Latin works.
Detail of the Gefion Fountain (1908) by Anders Bundgaard
Lokasenna (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
Gefjun Plows Zealand with her Oxen (1882) by Karl Ehrenberg
Gefion and King Gylphi (1906) by Lorenz Frølich