Kronborg Castle

This guide to Kronborg Castle, guarding the sound above Copenhagen, follows the legend of Holger the Dane, a sleeping stone guardian said to wake when Denmark faces true danger, seated in the castle's underground casemates. It traces his story from medieval French poems about a companion of Charlemagne through Hans Christian Andersen's 1846 telling, to the World War Two resistance group that later took his name. You'll also hear about the towers Shakespeare never saw but wrote into Hamlet as Elsinore. Best heard descending into the cold, vaulted casemates themselves.