Case file · Folklore / legend
Holger Danske sleeps under Kronborg
Danish legend, popularised by Hans Christian Andersen in 1845, says the hero Holger Danske sleeps in the casemates of Kronborg and will wake when Denmark is in danger.
1845 CE · 56.04, 12.62 · status: legend
The account
The figure comes from the medieval Ogier the Dane romances; a statue of the sleeping hero was placed in the casemates in 1907, and the WWII resistance group Holger Danske took his name.