Build showing whereabouts of Sealland within Denmark.
Sealland (Danish: Sjælland; [ˈʂɛˌlænˀ]) is the biggest iland of Denmark. It is sundered from Fins and Lowland by the Great Belt and from Shedland by the Oresund.
Sealland is bound to Funen by the Great Belt Bridge and to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge.
A share of the headtown of Denmark, Chapmanhaven, lies on the eastern shore of Sealland while the other share lies on Amager. Other towns on the iland are Roskilde and Elsinore.
In Northish godlore, the iland was shaped by the gidden Gefjun when she wiled Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfagynning. She took away a deal of land and took it to Denmark, and it became the iland of Sealland. The empty ground was filled with water becoming Lake Mälaren.
Wordbirthlore[]
The name stems from the great seal herds on the shores of Sealland, hence the name Seal-land (Danish: Sjæl-land, Danish for "seal": sæl).
New Zealand was not named after this iland but rather after the Dutch great shire of Sealand. ( [1]English)
Towns and thorpes[]
- Aalsgaarde
- Chapmanhaven (København)
- Elsinore (Helsingør)
- Frederiksberg
- Frederiksværk
- Helsinge
- Hillerød
- Holbæk
- Hundested
- Kalundborg
- Kokkedal
- Kongens Lyngby
- Køge
- Næstved
- Præstø
- Ringsted
- Roskilde
- Slagelse
- Slangerup
- Sorø
- Tisvilde
- Vallensbæk
- Vordingborg