The house itself has a much longer history. Isak Dinesen), a woman who was well-known and much-loved in literary circles around the world long before a period of her life was immortalized in the film Out of Africa. Life came full circle for this daughter of Denmark here at Rungstedlund, just 25 km north of Copenhagen, when, after her sojourn in Kenya, she returned to the home that had been owned by her family since 1879. You are in the Danish home, turned museum, of Karen Blixen (a.k.a. You can take your time pause and watch the birds for whom this area is a sanctuary, or ponder the mysteries of life and death beside her grave. Here a simple stone bears a large but informal flower arrangement. The flowers have been taken from the gardens. It is the sort of arrangement she might have composed. As you walk through her peaceful gardens and adjoining forest land, the tourist tape plays a piece of her favourite music: Max Bruch’s hauntingly beautiful Violin Concerto.
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