 This happened from 1939 to 1942 and the new cast was inaugurated on 22 May 1946.Krinsen is an old form of the Danish word Krans, meaning "circle" or "wreath".It is an elliptical parterre surrounding the statue of Christian V. The ellipse was a favoured geometrical shape at the time, an obvious example bing the elliptical pattern in the paving around the Marcus Aurelius statue at Piazza del Campidoglio.