Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs
Möller, Daniel / Crozier, Alan![Dumb Beasts in Hallowed Tombs](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/192/19228348/CHSBZCOP0319228348.jpg)
When Kersti Berg died in 1735, she was honoured with an obituary in the form of a poetic epitaph composed by Olof von Dalin. A modern-day reader can easily get the impression that Dalin's poem is an example of a funerary poem for a human being - one of the eighteenth century's most common poetic genres. Kersti Berg, however, was a dog, and Dalin's poem belongs to another genre, namely, the animal epitaph. In the seventeenth and eighteenth cent...