Gribshundsbänken - Ronneby, Sweden - Outside Wooden Display Carvings on Waymarking.com

The figure head from the shipwreck Gribshunden is reproduced here as a painted, wodden bench. The bench is sawn and carved from a tree trunk, and then painted.
At the front is the Gribshunden, a seamonster with large teeth that eats a human. On the back of the Gribshunden there is an octopus and at the back of the figure a bench is made.

Located by rest area in Ronneby. Artist Caspar Stubbe Teglbjaerg.

Gribshunden (Griffin-Hound) was a Danish warship, the flagship of John, King of Denmark (r. 1481–1513). Gribshunden sank in 1495 off the coast of Ronneby.

In the 1970s, a diving club found the wreck at a depth of 10 m (33 ft). The ship attracted international media attention when a near perfectly-preserved wooden figurehead, weighing about 250 kg of a mythical beast was recovered from the stem and brought to the surface. Suggestive of the ship's Gribshunden name, the chimeric figurehead is described as a dog- or dragon-like sea monster with lion ears, devouring a person in its crocodilian mouth.

Gribshunden is one of the best-preserved wrecks from the late medieval period.

At Blekinge Museum you can see the original figurehead Gribshunden.

Type of wood carving: Chainsaw carving Artist's Name: Caspar Stubbe Teglbjaerg. Approximate size/height: 4 m long - 1 m high Other type: Not listed Type of wood: Not listed

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