I don't know if these images will be of value to the list member who asked
about images of death.
All of these are found in the churches of medieval Denmark. There are more
in the churches of Southern Sweden.
BREGNINGE, HOLBAEK. c.1400.5-8. Allegory, Memento mori. West
sect, east arch. Richly clad young man, horsed, hunting, blows
horn driving stag towards man with crossbow. Symbol of fleeting
life.
BREGNINGE, HOLBAEK. c.1400.5-9. Allegory, Memento mori. West
sect, south arch, left side. three kings, crowned, richly clad,
talk and ride.
BREGNINGE, HOLBAEK. c.1400.5-10. Allegory, Memento mori. West
sect, south arch, right side. three skeletons, crowned, two
scrolls, text. <i>Det I er, det var I . Hvad vi er, skal I blive</i>.
BREGNINGE, HOLBAEK. c.1400.5-12. Allegory, Memento mori. East
sect, east arch. Death comes riding with a human head on staff,
scroll from left hand, text. <i>Ich being der dot und walt ich</i>.
Lower right, a pelican.
ELMELUNDE. c.1480. Elmelunde. 7-55. Allegory, Memento mori. Sect
1, north arch, left pendentive. Man with crossbow on shoulder,
blowing horn. Together with 7-62, a hunting scene, a reminder of
mortality.
ELMELUNDE. c.1480. Elmelunde. 7-62. Allegory, Memento mori. Sect
2, south arch, left pendentive. Together with 7-55, an allegory.
Deer fleeing hound seen in 7-63. A hunting scene, a memento
mori.
GUDUM. c.1550. 10-66. Man hunting. Allegory, Memento mori. West
arch, left pendentive. In midst of vine decoration, man with gun
hunts bird. Scroll. <i>nils sfal</i>.
HEDENSTED. c.1550.11-41. Allegory, Memento mori. Sect 1, north
arch. Left, man with gun aims right toward deer. Reminder of the
nearness of death.
HEDENSTED. c.1550.11-42. Allegory, Memento mori. Sect 1, north
arch, left. Close-up of man with gun.
HOEJBY. c.1380.12-78. Allegory, Memento mori. Sect 3, west arch.
Death, armed with bow and arrow, rides ox. Youth, richly clad,
in plate, mounted, falcon on wrist, to be Death's victim.
Morality on Life's brevity.
HOEJBY. c.1380.12-79. Death. Sect 3, west arch, left. Close-up
of Death.
HOEJBY. c.1380.12-80. Allegory, Memento mori. Sect 3, west arch,
right. Close-up of youth
SKIBBY c.1350. 21-110. Allegory, Memento mori. Choir, west
arch. Left, three living and three dead kings. Left, three kings
in life, richly dressed, mounted, with dogs and hawks, hunt.
Right, three kings dead, three skeletons, worms crawling around
bones. Scroll left, text. <i>QUOD SUMUS</i>. Scroll right, text.
<i>FUIMUS</i>.
SKIBBY c.1350. 21-111. Allegory, Memento mori. Choir, west
arch, left detail. Three living kings.
TUSE c.1450. Isefjord Workshop. 25-100. Allegory, Memento mori.
Sect 1, west arch. Allegory. Left, the three kings ride out
hunting with hawk and hound. Right, the three dead kings, eaten
by worms. Three scrolls, texts. <i>Heu quantas est noster dolor.
Vos qui transitis nostri memores rogo sitis. Fuimus aliquando
quod estis</i>.
TUSE c.1450. Isefjord Workshop. 25-101. Allegory, memento mori.
Sect 1, west arch, left detail. Allegory. Three living kings
mounted, hunt with hawk and hound.
TUSE c.1450. Isefjord Workshop. 25-102. Allegory, Memento mori.
Sect 1, west arch, right detail. Allegory. Three dead kings,
eaten by worms. Three scrolls, text. (See above).
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