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  • The original name for the city, from which the contemporary Danish ... quot; denotes "commerce" in Danish). It was repeatedly attacked ...
    28 KB (4,058 words) - 02:55, 8 January 2024
  • rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish. [http://skaldic ... During the period of union with Denmark, Danish replaced Norwegian. The university ...
    19 KB (2,883 words) - 06:39, 16 November 2022
  • ravaged. The expeditions were usually led by the Danish kings, but they were composed by warriors from all over Scandinavia, and they eventually brought ...
    9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
  • time of the year, opportune time, opportunity), Danish time (hour, lesson), Swedish timme (hour), Norwegian time (time, hour), Faroese tími (hour ...
    5 KB (711 words) - 22:41, 31 July 2023
  • Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn. ...
    5 KB (709 words) - 20:08, 30 September 2023
  • mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv ... in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen ...
    21 KB (3,288 words) - 10:19, 21 January 2023
  • largest and densest concentration of the Danish population, centering on ... There is little elevation to the Danish landscape at all; the highest ...
    38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
  • 13, 1891. Her mother, Marie Hanson, was a Danish immigrant domestic case worker ... Larsen herself. Crane is the daughter of a Danish mother and a black father ...
    12 KB (1,881 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
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    11 KB (1,182 words) - 17:38, 4 August 2022
  • There are two main types of seine nets: purse seines and Danish seines. ... Danish seine A Danish seine, also occasionally called an anchor seine ...
    17 KB (2,692 words) - 17:32, 28 March 2024
  • It is a self-governing Danish province. Though physiographically and ... in India (Tranquebar), West Africa (Danish Gold Coast), and the West ...
    37 KB (5,399 words) - 07:51, 25 May 2024
  • Aquilonis, c. 1075, after he visited the Danish king Svend Estridson, who ... for the idea was put forth in 1837 by Danish literary historian and antiquarian ...
    11 KB (1,764 words) - 19:05, 25 October 2022
  • It was translated into English, French, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. The story is based around Tsar Peter I "The ...
    5 KB (752 words) - 08:29, 7 December 2021
  • have to be deemed competent to enter a gymnasium. Danish gymnasia are also available in an intensive two year program leading to the Højere Forberedelseseksamen ...
    14 KB (2,013 words) - 07:46, 10 January 2024
  • the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control ... over the period 1672–1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby ...
    19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
  • (blue), Dutch blauw (blue), German blau (blue), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish blå (blue), Icelandic blár (blue), Latin flāvus (yellow), Middle ...
    6 KB (929 words) - 19:57, 30 September 2023
  • She married Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson on October 25, 1941. Fred was often referred to in Hollywood as "The Lizard of Roz ...
    12 KB (1,728 words) - 19:15, 16 December 2022
  • cognate to Danish Isbjerg, Swedish Isberg, Low Saxon Iesbarg, and German Eisberg. An iceberg differs from sea ice in that an iceberg is made of ...
    12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
  • Arkona Basin extends from Bornholm to the Danish isles of Falster and Zealand. Baltic Sea is the Bay of Kiel. The three Danish straits, the Great Belt, ...
    25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
  • his functioning mental capabilities. The Danish author Thorkild Hansen investigated ... it had been published anonymously in the Danish magazine Ny Jord in 1888 ...
    14 KB (2,197 words) - 03:57, 4 March 2023

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