I was feeling hopeless when I couldn’t find the name of a statue I photographed in Copenhagen. I couldn’t even find the name of the park we walked through. If it was indeed a park. I looked at the photos again and I discovered that hubby and I have taken pics of different statues, which we didn’t even bother to look for any information board by the side or anything that would tell something about each one of them. As you may have known, statues or sculptures are generally constructed with significant histories behind. And that’s what we missed with these statues. Our concern, though, was to see The Little Mermaid (Den lille havfrue) and that’s obviously the one statue we have known with a name. But before we reached the popular mermaid, we saw these on the way and through the park or whatever it was…
UPDATE: Hubby has found the name of this statue and it is called the Gefion Fountain. His way of searching is different from mine. He uses the map! Many thanks also to SEO for sharing his research and for prompting me with information in his comment below. I don’t need to write more about this statue.
Well, then, if you know the names of these statues, please feel free to inform me. Oh, there’s no statue in the last one but you find me focusing on taking pictures of something. That might as well be a statue of myself – someday. If you’re a traveler who loves statues and sculptures, you will not be disappointed of what you will see in Denmark.
Cassy says
13 August 2011 at 05:14Those are great statue shots!
Cassy from Guitar Made Easy
Marlene says
15 August 2011 at 22:33Thank you, Cassy, for your inspiring comment.
Dean @ Car News says
14 August 2011 at 04:10Hi Marlene those are really great statues. I’ll tell you if I found the name of the statues.
Marlene says
15 August 2011 at 22:34Thanks, Dean. Hubby has found one so I’ll update this post soon.
Tipsum says
14 August 2011 at 11:26Great photos. What camera do you use?
Marlene says
14 August 2011 at 17:28Hi, Tipsum, thanks. The first four photos I took with my good old Canon G7 while the last pic, hubby took with Nikon D90.
ella says
14 August 2011 at 19:58Wow, can’t help you here at all! I wonder how people remember all the names
Marlene says
15 August 2011 at 22:35It’s really hard to remember names, especially of old age.
katie says
15 August 2011 at 11:44Love these picture but for sure dont know the names of these statues 🙂
Marlene says
15 August 2011 at 22:36That makes the two of us. Hehee!
SEO says
15 August 2011 at 19:44Those are great shots, I will see if I can’t find what their names are.
Marlene says
15 August 2011 at 22:37Thank you. I hope you can find the name of any of those.
Mary says
16 August 2011 at 03:35Such nice pictures! I don’t know any of these statues. I always wanted to travel to someplace with lots of nice looking statues. Do you happen to know any other places?
Marlene says
16 August 2011 at 23:50Hi, Mary, I really appreciate you dropping by here. Oh, there are so many places with statues. Here in Europe, particularly, you’ll find ancient statues but I’m sure you also have some in your place.
SEO says
16 August 2011 at 16:13The first statue with the bulls is
Denmark-Copenhagen-Frederiksstaden-Statue-Gefion Springvandet
The myth goes that Gefion was told by the King of Sweden that she could have all the land she could plow in a night. She turned her sons into bulls and plowed all the land that is now the island of Sealand where Copenhagen is. Oddly enough, if you look at a map of southern Sweden there is a lake roughly the size and shape of Sealand.
I found many pictures of the others but no name. Hope this helps.
Marlene says
16 August 2011 at 23:46Thank you so much for sharing this. So kind of you. I updated the post above. It’s an interesting myth.
SEO says
17 August 2011 at 21:09It is an interesting myth. I took about 30 45 minutes looking through google images and that is the only statue I could find any info on. The one with the Angel on top of the column was only referred to as the angle and I had no luck with the other one. Glad I could help. It was fun.
Bev says
30 September 2012 at 19:21the Church is St Alban’s beside the Norse goddess, Gefjun and her statue. You are likely taking a picture this fountain, Copenhagen’s largest and located on the waterfront.
Marlene says
7 October 2012 at 01:15Thank you for taking time to share the name of the church. So kind of you. Now I know its name.