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  • The Danish verb "fri" means "to propose." In Dutch ... :and Fricg [Frigg] in Danish. Turville-Petre, 189. However, this association ...
    27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
  • were sold widely in English, and in German, Danish, and Swedish versions. Moody was a driving force in the success of the YMCA movement and did ...
    14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
  • The following excerpts from the Danish Ballad of Eline of Villenskov describes the physical aspects of trolls within Scandinavian mythology: ...
    13 KB (2,076 words) - 17:46, 2 May 2023
  • Hans Christian Andersen (1952) about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies (1959) about jazz pioneer Red Nichols. His wife, Sylvia ...
    13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:25, 15 January 2023
  • A sturgeon caviar imitation is Danish black colored lumpsucker caviar, which is sold throughout Europe in small glass jars. It can also be found ...
    16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
  • Iceland and Greenland, respectively in union with Denmark and a Danish colony, were occupied by the Allies for most of the war. British forces ...
    16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
  • more freedom and paid lower taxes than the Danish people because the distant ... and French models, and elected the Danish crown prince Christian Fredrik ...
    44 KB (6,442 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
  • from the entire European continent. Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was ... * Tycho Brahe – Danish astronomer * Václav Havel - playwright, dissident ...
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  • Revues in London, and was retained by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen as guest ballet master. He returned to the Ballets Russes when it settled ...
    14 KB (1,953 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
  • greatly from their medieval precursors. In one Danish ballad, for instance, Tristan and Iseult are made brother and sister. Other unlikely innovations ...
    29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
  • part of the German Confederation. When the Danish government tried to integrate ... Holstein by the Confederation, from which Danish forces withdrew. In 1864 ...
    46 KB (6,764 words) - 08:22, 2 December 2022
  • ” designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture]] ...
    15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
  • source populations of Anglo-Saxon and the later Danish Viking settlers, thus the survey registered both sets of chromosomes as belonging to the same ...
    51 KB (7,614 words) - 13:43, 28 April 2023
  • Women were employed in the Danish armed forces as early as 1934 with ... allowed to enlist in an all areas of the Danish armed forces, with combat ...
    76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
  • Thus, nationality may suffice, such that a Danish endogamist would require marriage only to other Danes. Despite the fact that many people tend ...
    16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
  • Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born ... in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and styles, became ...
    61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
  • by [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel|Schinkel's]] Danish pupil Theofil Hansen, 1885, in Greek Ionic, academically correct even to the polychrome sculpture.]] ...
    16 KB (2,354 words) - 07:13, 14 June 2023
  • of Agnes, an echo of Ordet (1954) by Danish director, Carl Theodor Dreyer, the most important influence on Bergman. ==Characteristics of Style== ...
    15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
  • unable to travel to his coronation, because his Danish kingdom was under threat of invasion by King Magnus I of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden and ...
    17 KB (2,606 words) - 17:22, 27 October 2020
  • * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated by Oliver Elton. Norroena Society, New York, 1905. Accessed online at [http://omacl ...
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