St. Knut’s Stone

 Roughly 20km west of St. Knut’s Cathedral – At Assenbølle Field Mark, not far from Gribsvad, on the right side of the road as you come from Odense, lies St. Knut’s stone, on which Knut the Holy is said to have rested on his journey to Odense. Thus say the Antiquarian Annals of 1812. According to legend, King Knut rested his weary limbs here whilst fleeing from Jutland to Odense in 1086. In the Middle Ages, a tradition arose of throwing pebbles at this very spot – it was supposed to protect against the same fate as the murdered king.