I was tempted to title this post “Sjælland (Zealand) and Sweden”, but I promised to avoid such. This is a two part entry, covering a couple of day trips I made from Copenhagen (yes, I was able to tear myself away). July 6, 2007 Waking to another gloomy, grey day, I felt inspired to undertake a Shakespearean pilgrimage to Hamlet’s Elsinore (now called Helsingør) and its castle, Kronborg. Only an hour north of Copenhagen by train, Helsingør felt a suitable location to situate the mad prince - set on the narrow passage of Ãresund, the strait that separates Sweden and Denmark; dark choppy seas crash around the castle. But, as my earlier research revealed, the story of Hamlet, while set in Denmark, did not actually unfold in and around Kronborg, but in the region of
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