Re: GRGR(23): Rügen

[James Kyllo]

from
http://www.all-in-all.com/english/0251.htm

Shining white chalk cliffs, kilometres long fine sandy beaches, calm
expanses of beech woods and the beauty of Cape Arkona are all part of
Germany's largest island.  The megaliths graves bear witness that Ruegen had
already been settled more than 1000 years ago and had attracted traders and
seafarers. Germanic and Slavic earthworks belie a turbulent history until
the Danish Bishop Absalon destroyed the pagan deity of the Ranen in 1168 and
began the Christianisation of Ruegen.

see also
http://www.all-in-all.com/english/9007.htm

and from

http://www.ruegen.de/

Rügen ist auch heute noch die "romantische Landschaft", die der Maler Caspar
David Friedrich gesehen und in seinen Bildern festgehalten hat.

{Today, Ruegen is still the "romantic landscape" which the painter Caspar
David Friedrich saw and captured in his paintings}  (or something like
that - my translation)

I wasn't familiar with Friedrich but this:

http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/friedrich.wanderer-sea-fog.jp
g

painting is very familiar.

more about him at

http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/

best

James