Some of Denmark’s most memorable frescoes are splashed across the walls and ceiling of Keldby’s 13th-century brick church. The oldest (1275) yet most sophisticated decorate the arch leading to the magnificent folding medieval altarpiece. More intriguing are the biblical scenes added around 1500 by the “Elmelunde master.”
As at Elmelunde, this includes demons dragging the damned into a devil’s mouth and a serpent with a human-headed tail handing out apples. Herod’s troops are again in medieval armor and here are gruesomely spearing babies. Spot a unicorn above the pulpit.
