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| Copenhagen skyline, from Marriott
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| Copenhagen City Hall
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| City Hall Dragons
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| City Hall Dragons
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| City Hall Dragon
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| Stork Fountain
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| View to St Nicholas Tower
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Old Bourse Tower
Four intertwined dragons
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The town of Helsingør guards the North end of the narrow Sound between Denmark and Sweden.
It is the home of Kronborg Slot, better known in English as Elsinore Castle, the setting for Hamlet
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| View out Helsingør Harbor, across to Sweden
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| St Oloi (Olav) Kirke (1559)
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| View to Kronborg Slot aka Elsinore Castle
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| The Moat
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| Kronborg Slot
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| Kronborg Slot
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| An Ocean God, presumably Neptune
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| Tower and interior courtyard
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| The enormous Great Ballroom
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| One of many Restored state rooms
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Knud VI (b.1163 d.1202)
One of a series of Royal tapestries from 1585
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Journey of Anne of Denmark and James VI of Scotland
James VI and Anne spent several months at Elsinore
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| Casemates under the Castle
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| View from Elsinore across The Sound to Sweden
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| Over the Bridge from Copenhagen to Sweden
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| Speeding across Rural Sweden
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| Speeding across Rural Sweden
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Riddarholmen Church. 13th c, with later additions.
This was the Swedish Royal Necropolis
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| Riddarholmen Church. East End: Chancel & Chapels
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| Riddarholmen Church interior
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| Altar area
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Two early Kings buried before the High Altar
Magnus Ladulås (d.1290) & Karl Knutsson Bonde (d.1470)
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Gustavus Adolphus sarcophagus
"The Savior of North German Protestanism"
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Bernadotte Chapel
Central sarcophagus is King Karl XIV Johan (Marshal Bernadotte)
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| 17th c (?) Royal Tombs
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Column & Statue of Birger Jarl
12th c King, founder of Stockholm.
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| North facade of Palace
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| Entrance to the Treasury
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| 19th c Princely Crowns
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| Erik XIV's Regalia. 1561
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| Erik XIV's Crown. 1561
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| Maria Eleonora's Crown. 1620
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| Crown Prince's Crown. 1650
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| Silver Baptismal Font. ~1700
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| 16th c Regalia Chest, with elaborate lock
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| Lever & Key for Regalia Chest
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| Hall of State. From 1755
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| Hall of State: Silver Throne. 1650
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| Royal chapel
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| State Apartments
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Ceiling painting depicting Industry
Ceiling of Karl XI Gallery
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Intensely Magnificent Karl XI's Gallery
Inspired by the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
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| The "White Sea Hall".
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| An Idiot Tourist
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Karl XIV Johan by Gerard
Aka Marshal Bernadotte
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Replica of rune-carved statue.
Replica of a classical marble statue from Piraeus in Greece, which had Norse runes carved on it in the 10th c. by Varangians!
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| Bronze lur (horn) 900-700 BC
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"Odor" exhibit
Squueze the bulb, smell an odor!
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| Battery of odors
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| Gold from the 1st c BC to 2nd c AD
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| Helmet and ornaments from 5th c AD
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| Gold Collar, 5th - 6th c AD
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| Big chunks of gold, 5th - 6th c AD
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| "Hammer of Thor" 8th-11th c.
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| "Hammer of Thor" 8th-11th c.
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| Assorted early Viking gold
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| Stockholm City Hall (1923)
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"House of the Nobility" ~1660
Still used by an association representing the Nobility
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View over Gamla Stan
From the Sheraton
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| Swedish Parliament, East Facade
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Women's Rights Campaigners monument
In front of Parliament.
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| Armoury: Assorted authentic Armor
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| Crowned Helmet of Gustav Vasa, 1540
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| Armoury: Assorted helmets, 1510-1540
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| Armoury: Princess Sofia Magdalena's Wedding Dress, 1766
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| Storkyrkan Church interior
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| Storkyrkan: Candelabra
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| Storkyrkan: St George & the Drgaon, 1489
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| Storkyrkan: very grand Royal Pew
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Storkyrkan: Perhelion Painting
Odd atomospheic halos. Copy of a 153X work.
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The warship Vasa was launched in 1628, but sunk on her maiden voyage. The hull was recovered surprisingly intact in 1961.
She is impressively large and well preserved.
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| Stern view
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Lower Stern view
Two alarmingly low stern gun ports
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| Royal Lion Figurehead
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| Reimagined carving
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I sampled some assorted Danish pastries in Denmark and
more in Greenland.
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Copenhagen: Traditional Spandauer
Aka a "Danish pastry"
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| Copenhagen: Two Rumkegler
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| Copenhagen: A fine thick Hindbærsnitter
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| Copenhagen: A yummy Direktorsnegl
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Copenhagen: Kanelsngel
With some chocolate overlap from a nearby Direktorsnegl
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| Stockholm: Tebirke
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Greenland
