Search results for "Danish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Birefringence was first described in calcite crystals by the Danish scientist Rasmus Bartholin in 1669. Since then, many birefringent crystals ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- Frisian peninsula of Eiderstedt, then under Danish rule. He was one of seven children. After completing his high school education in Husum, Tönnies ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- spears, and in some cases the formidable Danish axes, and were protected ... housecarls were highly-skilled with the Danish battle axe, capable of causing ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855) was a nineteenth century Danish philosopher and theologian who has often been called ...47 KB (7,286 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
- :and Fricg [Frigg] in Danish. Turville-Petre, 189. Further evidence ... * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History (Volumes I-IX). Translated ...17 KB (2,558 words) - 07:03, 15 April 2024
- Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- was King of Greece from 1863 to 1913. Originally a Danish prince, when only 17 years old he was elected King by the Greek National Assembly, which had ...30 KB (4,602 words) - 15:49, 10 November 2022
- Corso only to return on January 27, 1658, on the Danish Privateer "Glückstadt." Fort Carlsborg was seized and made part of the Danish Gold ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- The Danish School system is supported by tax-based governmental and municipal funding from day care through primary and secondary education to ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- In Gesta Danorum, Høtherus (Höðr) is a human hero of the Danish ... In Gesta Danorum, a Danish history written by Saxo Grammaticus (c ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) (c. 1637 – May 9, 1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 21:17, 15 July 2020
- York. During this period Percy read the works of Danish existentialist writer, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and ...9 KB (1,310 words) - 18:46, 17 April 2023
- the River Aire, retrieving York, while the Danish army promised to depart. autonomy toward England. Then, the Danish king disembarked in person ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 11:03, 9 May 2023
- The pamphlet was translated also into Danish and Swedish. The Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots in Matthew Lewis ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- after St. Lucius had been declared patron of the Danish region of Zealand. Lucius' head is among the few relics to have survived the Reformation ...11 KB (1,673 words) - 04:03, 26 November 2022
- Håkon mounted a campaign against the Danish province of Halland in 1256 ... 1261 on the occasion of his wedding to the Danish princess Ingibjörg. ...19 KB (3,123 words) - 23:53, 29 July 2023
- family returned to Britain after the power of its Danish overlords waned, the young princess (and her surviving relatives) were soon forced to flee ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 13:25, 5 September 2022
- a monster named Grendel. This poem, about Danish and Swedish kings and heroes ... a historical research commission of the Danish government. Since that time ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- 1944 a part of the Norwegian and later the Danish monarchies. ... famines, and epidemics, the effects of Danish control resulted in misery ...36 KB (5,300 words) - 17:19, 10 February 2024
- In 1985, the Howard Group of companies was acquired by the Danish Thrige Agro Group. About five years later, in December 2000, the Howard Group ...10 KB (1,524 words) - 22:27, 16 December 2022
