They have changed many times. On my first visit to Copenhagen I was taken by the statue of the city's founder, Bishop Absalom, in front of the town hall.
Mounted on horseback, in full armour, and swinging a battleaxe!
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A lot of horrible things were done in the name of one god or another.
Perhaps - but that hardly explains the battleaxe. Apparently, as well as being Bishop, he was a civil and military leader!