The castle is also known as Elsinore, the setting for William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the picture below is a portrait of Amleth, whose story was told by Saxo Grammaticus in the 13th century and later retold by Shakespeare.
The castle also has a statue of Olgier the Dane, the great Danish King that sleeps here until needed for protection of the country's people. However, we have discovered that the Danish are quite fatalistic given their history of losing many wars to the Swedish (there appears to be a fun rivalry between them, as has been demonstrated from our Danish and Swedish classmates).
For the afternoon we took a canal tour of downtown Copenhagen, where we saw the house of Hans Christian Anderson (who wrote The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid), the new opera house (which was donated by Maersk), and a battle ship that was recently retired because it accidently shot a missle at a summer house--luckily no one was home at the time!
Now we are off to dinner to meet a Danish Sloan alum, and then a little relaxation before our first business meetings tomorrow morning.
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