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Ilsemade Holy Spring

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Ilsemade Holy Spring

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Ilsemade Holy Spring

Name: Ilsemade Holy Spring
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Location: Samsø, Central Denmark, Denmark

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1. Bench With Sea View – Ilsemade Holy Spring loop from Kolby

4.02km

01:02

20m

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2. Ilsemade Holy Spring – Bench With Sea View loop from Tranebjerg

5.20km

01:21

30m

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3. Bench With Sea View – Ilsemade Holy Spring loop from Tranebjerg

6.65km

01:43

30m

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Rainer Beutner

April 27, 2019

The Ilsemade kilde (Danish also Helligkorskilde - German "Heiligkreuzquelle") is a sacred spring on the Kattegat island Samsø in Denmark. It is located on the western beach of the island at Vesterløkken, only eight meters from the beach.
The source, which has been known for centuries, is formed by a hollowed oak trunk. It is one of about 700 sacred springs in Denmark, many of which have been dried or removed.
The Danish National Museum examined the source in 1967. The C14 dating of the hollowed oak trunk yielded the surprising result of 940 BC. Chr. - thus early Bronze Age. Similar data come from a Bronze Age settlement on the island of Møn.

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Rainer Beutner

April 27, 2019

On the shore of Vesterløkken lies a spring where fresh water leaps into a hollowed-out bronze age oak.
Legend has it that the spring ran where a dead woman walked along the beach. Around her neck she had a golden crucifix. Horses could not drag the body to Tranebjerg or Kolby Church, but easily to Onsbjerg Church. Here the woman was buried, and the cross got its place in the choir of the church.
Drinking from the spring Valborg Night - the night between April 30 and May 1 - states that the water has healing power.

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Elevation 60 m

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Location: Samsø, Central Denmark, Denmark

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Ilsemade Holy Spring

1. Bench With Sea View – Ilsemade Holy Spring loop from Kolby

2. Ilsemade Holy Spring – Bench With Sea View loop from Tranebjerg

3. Bench With Sea View – Ilsemade Holy Spring loop from Tranebjerg

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