Little Gunver

A group of fishermen from Hornbæk saved the crew from a wrecked British ship and later refused to receive the customary reward.

The song about Little Gunver is about a young girl who is drawn to the bottom of the sea by an alluring but deceitful merman.

The song is a pastiche written in the style of a traditional medieval ballade (folkevise).

A bronze cast was installed on a temporary basis in Rosenborg Castle Garden in Copenhagen in 1909 but was made permanent through a donation from Carl Jacobsen in 1911.

It illustrates the lines:[1] Liden Gunver vandrer som helst i Qvel, Saa tankefuld.