Saturday 17 July 2021

kristinehamn

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1XOBtX9QAxTfEjb4A5NC2W1vHBIviab2Ahttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1n9AB972gW74XGfrKHsQfvlLYzUjQ-RF5Driving a few kilometers to the city on the shore of Lake Vรคnern—the larger of the two and biggest in all of the European Union, third on the continent, we marveled at the Brick Gothic Kristinehamns kyrka opened in 1858 and informed by a similar construction boom after the Wiesbaden school to my mind. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1n0YqS3GD9FaGJAtz2b7lr-hRCuIdQw22https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1dadNxuLIbHuQayYpEQRzcTYM_UirOx8rhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1_qLx4g0BdhUMo-9ss1wLdQKDr4ym9pJU On the lakefront preceding the harbor, there is a monumental sculpture from Pablo Picasso looking into the blue expanse, the fifteen meter high pillar the artist‘s largest and part of a series called „les dames des Mougins.“ Not overseeing the construction in person, the location of the installation was reportedly a contest between Sweden and Norway, with the latter ultimately conceding. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1IkYqb4zNS_IFzhzfHyLld724548kDBfhhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1mLRLipuGMgLSJ-dhRxVM78ErfBg3eLTh Just outside of town in a meadow of daisies and guarded by a flock of sheep stands the Jรคrsberg Runestone, a bit less verbose than the previous, the inscription is one of the oldest known. Essentially „I made a thing,“ the writing is translated as „Leubaz I am called…I, the earl, write the runes.“