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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. Ilsemade Holy Spring – Nordby Bell Tower loop from Onsbjerg

40.3km

02:16

90m

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2. Nordby Bell Tower – Vesborg Lighthouse loop from Onsbjerg

91.2km

06:15

390m

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3. Kolby Kås Harbor – Vesborg Lighthouse loop from Onsbjerg

52.6km

03:21

160m

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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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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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Elevation 10 m

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Tuesday 16 December

8°C

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Max wind speed: 18.0 km/h

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Location: Samsø, Central Denmark, Denmark

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Ilsemade Holy Spring

1. Ilsemade Holy Spring – Nordby Bell Tower loop from Onsbjerg

2. Nordby Bell Tower – Vesborg Lighthouse loop from Onsbjerg

3. Kolby Kås Harbor – Vesborg Lighthouse loop from Onsbjerg

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