Roskilde Cathedral

Köpenhamn · Dänemark · Kyrka · Grusel 4/5

Beneath the cathedral a horse was buried alive with one leg cut off – as a three-legged hel-horse with glowing eyes it still portends death.

In the burial church of the kings at Roskilde, a World Heritage site and final resting place of forty Danish monarchs, rides Denmark's eeriest churchyard being: the helhest. According to legend, a great brewery horse was sacrificed when the cathedral was built and buried alive beneath the walls – one leg cut off so it could never run away. Ever since, it appears as a three-legged black horse with glowing red eyes, and whoever meets the hel-horse knows death is near. According to the local press, cathedral staff keep a protocol recording each time an employee sees a spectre in the church, and the helhest is among the most frequently reported – most recently said to have been seen galloping through the vaults and out through the locked Royal Door. Among sarcophagi and royal skulls, the legend never feels far away.

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Roskilde Cathedral liegt in Köpenhamn, Dänemark.