Gefion(Gefjun) Gefion is a Norse goddess of fertility, and is associated with the plow. Once Gefion disguised herself as a beggar and went to Gylfe, king of Sweden, Here she asked king Gylfe to give her some land. The king told her that she could have as much land as she could plow in one day, and one night. Gefion used her four sons, who were huge as oxes, and had a Jotun(giant) as father. Gefion hitched the oxens to a plow and proceeded to cut deeply into the land of Sweden. Then she and the oxen towered the soil plowed, ...
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Gefion(Gefjun) Gefion is a Norse goddess of fertility, and is associated with the plow. Once Gefion disguised herself as a beggar and went to Gylfe, king of Sweden, Here she asked king Gylfe to give her some land. The king told her that she could have as much land as she could plow in one day, and one night. Gefion used her four sons, who were huge as oxes, and had a Jotun(giant) as father. Gefion hitched the oxens to a plow and proceeded to cut deeply into the land of Sweden. Then she and the oxen towered the soil plowed, into the sea That soil it is now known as the island of Sealand, today part of Denmark. Kaj Pindal took this great Norse Saga about the creation of Sealand and made into a picture book that shows how Sealand got where it is today, in the way that everybody understand. Unlike that stupid story about the Iceage
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