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Gefjon Demanding Land from the Swedish King Gylfi

🪓 Norse MythologyOdense, Funen, DenmarkGefjon • King Gylfi • Oxen Sons

The goddess Gefjon, disguised as a wandering traveler, tricked the Swedish King Gylfi into granting her as much land as four oxen could plow in a single day and night. Using her giant-born sons transformed into massive oxen, she tore a vast portion of Sweden's earth away and dragged it into the sea, forming the island of Zealand. The remaining cavity in the Swedish landscape became Lake...