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Name These Statues

13 August 2011 By: Marlene20 Comments

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…

A statue in Copenhagen

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.

A statue in Copenhagen

A statue in Copenhagen

A statue in Copenhagen, Denmark

Not a statue of myself

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.

About Marlene

Marlene works as a teacher, but she blogs in her spare time. She started blogging in 2007, and since then, it has become one of her hobbies. She writes for Lemback.com, which she and her husband have built and managed but later moved to Wordpress to join other WP bloggers. Connect Marlene on Twitter

Comments

  1. Cassy says

    13 August 2011 at 05:14

    Those are great statue shots!

    Cassy from Guitar Made Easy

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      15 August 2011 at 22:33

      Thank you, Cassy, for your inspiring comment.

      Reply
  2. Dean @ Car News says

    14 August 2011 at 04:10

    Hi Marlene those are really great statues. I’ll tell you if I found the name of the statues.

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      15 August 2011 at 22:34

      Thanks, Dean. Hubby has found one so I’ll update this post soon.

      Reply
  3. Tipsum says

    14 August 2011 at 11:26

    Great photos. What camera do you use?

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      14 August 2011 at 17:28

      Hi, Tipsum, thanks. The first four photos I took with my good old Canon G7 while the last pic, hubby took with Nikon D90.

      Reply
  4. ella says

    14 August 2011 at 19:58

    Wow, can’t help you here at all! I wonder how people remember all the names

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      15 August 2011 at 22:35

      It’s really hard to remember names, especially of old age.

      Reply
  5. katie says

    15 August 2011 at 11:44

    Love these picture but for sure dont know the names of these statues 🙂

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      15 August 2011 at 22:36

      That makes the two of us. Hehee!

      Reply
  6. SEO says

    15 August 2011 at 19:44

    Those are great shots, I will see if I can’t find what their names are.

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      15 August 2011 at 22:37

      Thank you. I hope you can find the name of any of those.

      Reply
  7. Mary says

    16 August 2011 at 03:35

    Such 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?

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      16 August 2011 at 23:50

      Hi, 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.

      Reply
  8. SEO says

    16 August 2011 at 16:13

    The 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.

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      16 August 2011 at 23:46

      Thank you so much for sharing this. So kind of you. I updated the post above. It’s an interesting myth.

      Reply
      • SEO says

        17 August 2011 at 21:09

        It 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.

        Reply
  9. Bev says

    30 September 2012 at 19:21

    the 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.

    Reply
    • Marlene says

      7 October 2012 at 01:15

      Thank you for taking time to share the name of the church. So kind of you. Now I know its name.

      Reply

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