Gurre Castle Ruin

Köpenhamn · Dänemark · Slottsruin · Grusel 3/5

'Let God keep His heaven, if I may keep Gurre' – for those words King Valdemar rides his wild hunt every night.

Among the ruined walls of Gurre in the forests west of Elsinore, King Valdemar Atterdag died on 24 October 1375 – and here one of Denmark's most powerful bodies of legend was born. The king is said to have uttered the blasphemous words that God was welcome to keep His heaven, so long as he himself could keep Gurre. The punishment was eternal: every night Valdemar rides his wild hunt through the forests of North Zealand with a thundering retinue of black hounds and huntsmen, and the wise remember to open gates and doors so the hunt can pass without stopping. The legend, recorded as early as 1586, is entwined with the story of the king's beloved Tove, who by tradition was killed in the bathhouse by the jealous queen. The ruin is protected today – but at night, the legend says, the forest still belongs to the king.

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Gurre Castle Ruin liegt in Köpenhamn, Dänemark.