Storkyrkan

This guide to Storkyrkan in Stockholm centers on a wooden sculpture of Saint George and the dragon, commissioned in 1489 by Sten Sture the Elder, a regent rather than a king. You'll hear the story he had told about praying to Saint George before the Battle of Brunkeberg in 1471, what historians now suspect about when that legend was actually invented, and how the sculpture came from the workshop of German master Bernt Notke. The guide also follows why Sture arranged to be buried inside its base.