Copenhague, Danemark: depuis le pont près du "Château", Agnete and the Merman, Suste Bonnén, 1990-92
A woman, Agnete, agrees to go to the bottom of the sea and live with a merman as his wife.
They live happily together for 8 years and have 7 sons, until one day Agnete hears the chiming of a church bell and asks the merman if she can go to church on land. He agrees on the condition that she doesn’t unbind her hair in the churchyard, doesn’t sit with her mother in the church and doesn’t kneel in the church.
Agnete of course does all of these things and the merman comes to her and asks what she thinks she’s doing as her children miss her. Agnete replies simply that they can miss her as much as they like as she won’t be going back.
Copenhague, Danemark: depuis le pont près du "Château", Agnete and the Merman, Suste Bonnén, 1990-92
A woman, Agnete, agrees to go to the bottom of the sea and live with a merman as his wife.
They live happily together for 8 years and have 7 sons, until one day Agnete hears the chiming of a church bell and asks the merman if she can go to church on land. He agrees on the condition that she doesn’t unbind her hair in the churchyard, doesn’t sit with her mother in the church and doesn’t kneel in the church.
Agnete of course does all of these things and the merman comes to her and asks what she thinks she’s doing as her children miss her. Agnete replies simply that they can miss her as much as they like as she won’t be going back.