After 500 years, figurehead returns to Copenhagen
March 20, 2016
A 300 kilo figurehead, salvaged last year from a Danish ship that sank off Sweden’s coast over 500 years ago, has now returned to a Copenhagen museum.
A 300 kilo figurehead, salvaged last year from a Danish ship that sank off Sweden’s coast over 500 years ago, has now returned to a Copenhagen museum.
Swedish divers have hauled up a monster (or a grinning dog if you see it that way) once intended to impress or frighten enemy sailors facing a warship built in the late 1400s for King Hans of Denmark.
A 300 kilo figurehead, salvaged last year from a Danish ship that sank off Sweden’s coast over 500 years ago, has now returned to a Copenhagen museum.
Swedish divers have hauled up a monster (or a grinning dog if you see it that way) once intended to impress or frighten enemy sailors facing a warship built in the late 1400s for King Hans of Denmark.