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Jungfrun Anna Åkesson - died 1886. "Jungfru" is the Swedish word for "maid" and can mean both unmarried woman and a woman working with house-chores in private households. It is impossible to tell which kind of maid this refers to.
It is small stone with an angel in a relief - mass-produced in the 19th century. This relief was designed by the Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen, and is one of a pair. This one is called Night (and the other, suitably enough, Day), and the design is from 1815 - and the flying thing behind the angle with the children is an owl.
The northern cemetery in Lund. It is now in an area surrounded by houses, close to hospital, but when the cemetery was founded in 1816 it was outside the town. It was partially planned by the architect Fredrik Blom. But it was not until it had been forbidden in 1841 to be buried within the town limits that it became popular to be buried here.
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