As we walked out of Kastellet it looked as if we were unable to get closer to the statue of the little Mermaid, as every time we looked at the map we were carrying we seemed to have moved further away along Langeline or just taken he wrong lane.
We had heard it was a fairly small statue, but still we felt it had to be visible and we hadn't gone out all that way not to see it, so we persevere in trying to locate the "mermaid" of our childhood reading stories.
We had heard it was a fairly small statue, but still we felt it had to be visible and we hadn't gone out all that way not to see it, so we persevere in trying to locate the "mermaid" of our childhood reading stories.
It was quite by chance that we unexpectedly sighted her surrounded by dozens of people ... of all sorts of origins and creeds, whose childhood must have also been influenced by the Hans Christian Andersen's tale.
There she sat in a rather shy looking way and no matter which way you looked at her there was an expectant look on her part that somehow enhanced her fragility.
Having been commissioned by Carl Jakobsen and inspired by the ballet version of the little mermaid by Christian Andersen the tiny little bronze figure was sculpted by Edvard Eriksen in 1913 using the facial expression of the prima ballerina Ellen Price who had played the part of the mermaid and the body of his own wife as a sculpting model.
As we were walking down towards Amalienborg slot, we looked right onto the Castellet's area and sighted the windmill located in its premises in the distance ...
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