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After 500 years, figurehead returns to Copenhagen

Paul Heymont · 3/20/164:37 PM

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.

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Danish sea monster on display in Swedish museum

Paul Heymont · 8/14/151:00 PM

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.

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