We arrived near the town of Strøby, on the island Sjælland in Denmark. The name of the island is derived from 'seal' or from 'inlet/fjord', but was at an early age confused with the Old Danish word sjø, which meant 'sea' or 'lake', which is why the poetic form of Sjælland is also Sjøland. In the Prose Edda, a mythological Epic from Medieval Iceland, the island is called Selund. King Gylfi ruled the area now called Sweden. Legend has it that he promised arable land to a beggar-woman as a reward for how she had entertained him. The size of the plot was such, that 4 bulls could plough it over the course of a day and a night. But the king did not know that this woman was a goddess. Her name was Gefion. From the land of the giants she fetched 4 bulls and put them in front of the plough. However, these bulls were her sons, their father was a giant. They ploughed so hard and deep that the whole country came away from Sweden and ended up in the sea between Sweden and Denmark. There Gefion left it and she called it Selund. The place in Sweden where the land was ploughed away, became an inland lake with as many bays as there are headlands in Sjælland.