The morgenseiten of Katharsisdrill 5 - The Queens of old.

I a few hours I will go on a small tour into rainy Copenhagen together with Vincent @vcelier, to see some of the treasures of the past. When you are to suggest people who are visiting your city what to see, it is sometimes hard to come up with something. When you live in a city it will eventually seem rather mundane. But as I am myself very interested in the prehistory of Northern Europe these days (mainly because I had to read a lot about the Celts as research for my comic) I have suggested we go and see The National Museum. Now I am only thinking about how we will get there, Walking in the rain might be a bit annoying so we could take a bus. My normal choice would always be to cycle, but I am not sure Vincent would like it. I could also take him in the cargo bike... :) He is not a big fat person and while I was ill this autumn, my wife put me in the Christiania bike and took me to Bispebjerg, a hospital situated in a large hill. So I have tried to transported this way myself. I will ask him.

The first thing I did when started writing this post was paste an image from the newspaper so I better give you an explanation. It is the sarcophagus of the Queen that is ready after 15 years of work. She still lives, but now she can at least relax. If she is to die everything is fixed.

It is the Danish artist Bjørn Nørgaard who designed it. He has obviously been looking a lot on the Italian baroque from the time of the counter-reformation. There is also some psychedelic seventies spaceship to it.

The sarcophagus of Margrethe II - photo: Keld Navntoft/Royal Family

The first Margrethe, who died in 1412, is also buried in the same church - Roskilde Domkirke - as far as I remember the church where most kings and queens are buried. No matter what the place is packed with dead royalty.

My wife thought that this would be incomplete without the Sarcophagus of Margrethe I, so here it is.

My friend @shortcut has started to write some posts every morning - #morgenseiten he calls it - morning-pages. Here is his explanation of the project:

It goes like this: you shall each morning write from the soul, anything going through your head.

He writes a lot more, but this is the essence :) (Read his first morgenseiten post here)

I have decided to try the same. I write from the top of my head every morning or late morning if I have been sleeping late. I only correct typos and make a headline afterwards. Else everything is left as written. Expect some of it to sound like stage directions.