"Now it's our turn to show you some castles, Greta," said Anna, as she and her mother and Greta got in the car. Anna's mother had promised to take the girls on an all-day trip to northern Zealand. This part of Denmark is as full of castles as a plum-cake is full of plums.
After driving about twenty-five miles along the shore, they came to Kronborg Castle, in the town of Elsinore.
"This is the most famous castle in Denmark," said Anna's mother.
"Why?" asked Greta.
"Haven't you ever read 'Hamlet,' Greta?" asked Anna in surprise. "Kronborg Castle is where Hamlet lived. Only Shakespeare called it Elsinore, which is the name of the town instead of the castle."
As she walked across the old drawbridge and entered the outer yard of the castle, Greta thought that Kronborg was the loveliest castle she had ever seen. It was much larger and much more wonderful than Vosborg. When they came to the drawbridge across the second moat, Anna pointed out the high battlement where the ghost of the murdered king once walked.
"Does he still walk there, Anna?" asked Greta.
"Maybe he does, Greta. All we really know about him is what Shakespeare tells us in his play."