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- and is now an autonomous region of the Danish state. The Faroe Islands ... had become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
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- text=Sigrid Undset (May 20, 1882 – June 10, 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. Born in Denmark and raised in Norway, Undset had her ...762 bytes (109 words) - 19:59, 27 July 2023
- Sigrid Undset was an early twentieth century Danish author. While Danish, she moved to Norway at the age of two and spent the majority of her ...888 bytes (147 words) - 00:24, 25 July 2023
File:800px-US-hoosier-family.jpg Typical extended middle-class U.S. family from Indiana of Danish/German extraction. The woman in the lavender print dress is the 87-year-old ...(800 × 600 (243 KB)) - 23:12, 27 May 2020- Århus – September 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who demonstrated that light had a finite speed by measuring apparent changes in the ...652 bytes (96 words) - 16:13, 27 January 2021
- game), Eequivalent to game + -le. Compare Old Danish gammel, Middle High German gamel (pleasure; fun). ==Noun== gambling (usually uncountable ...835 bytes (106 words) - 16:29, 31 October 2023
- and is now an autonomous region of the Danish state. The Faroe Islands ... had become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- female), German Weib (woman, wife, female), Danish viv (wife, woman), Norwegian viv (wife, woman, girl), Swedish viv (woman), Faroese vív (wife, woman ...1 KB (180 words) - 19:40, 30 September 2023
- Frisian fiedsel (food), Dutch voedsel (food), Danish føde (food), Swedish föda (food), Icelandic fæða, fæði (food), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 ...2 KB (198 words) - 23:43, 25 June 2023
- German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (length), Danish længde (length), Swedish längd (length), Icelandic lengd (length). ==Noun== ...2 KB (215 words) - 20:46, 5 March 2024
- * Danish * Dutch ** Standard ** Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect * English ** Australian ** General American ** New Zealand ** Received Pronunciation ...5 KB (471 words) - 00:38, 18 February 2023
- Sweerd, Schwert (sword), German Schwert (sword), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (sword), Icelandic sverð (sword), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ ...2 KB (202 words) - 00:16, 1 February 2024
- Cognate with Scots flude, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð. ==Noun== flood (plural floods) # A (usually disastrous) overflow ...2 KB (199 words) - 18:58, 1 July 2023
- , German Waffe (weapon) and Wappen (coat of arms), Danish våben (weapon, coat of arms), Swedish vapen (weapon, coat of arms), Norwegian Bokmål våpen ...2 KB (222 words) - 19:28, 31 March 2024
- kleding (clothing), German Kleidung (clothing), Danish klædning (clothing, dress, attire), Swedish klädning (dress). Doublet of the dialectal English ...2 KB (223 words) - 19:17, 31 March 2024
- German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari. ===Noun=== singer (plural singers) ...2 KB (188 words) - 15:37, 1 September 2023
- leder, leer (leather), German Leder (leather), Danish læder (leather), Swedish läder (leather), Icelandic leður (leather). ==Noun== ...2 KB (236 words) - 22:39, 30 April 2024
- Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक or vṛ́ka, Persian گرگ or gorg, Lithuanian vilkas, Russian ...2 KB (292 words) - 19:25, 31 October 2023
- , Dutch winter (winter), German Winter (winter), Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian vinter (winter), Icelandic vetur (winter). ==Noun== ...2 KB (303 words) - 20:13, 30 September 2023
- Germanic origin. Probably from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed ...2 KB (287 words) - 20:27, 2 July 2023
- The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark to succeed ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn ríki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige) (994/995 – November ...11 KB (1,794 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen), is a name given to a part of ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- a poor peasant family in Sortelung on the Danish island of Funen, not far ... 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- hand she spared no pains to recover lost Danish territory. She purchased ... under such stringent conditions that the Danish crown got all the advantage ...12 KB (1,911 words) - 03:55, 6 November 2022
- himins (heaven, sky), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch ...3 KB (405 words) - 23:10, 29 August 2023
- illusions developed around 1915, by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin ... 1915, in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ...6 KB (934 words) - 20:58, 21 December 2022
- (wood, twig), Middle High German wite (wood), Danish ved (wood), Swedish ved (firewood), Icelandic viður (wood). Further cognates include Irish fiodh ...3 KB (391 words) - 16:29, 31 August 2023
- Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more ...3 KB (421 words) - 22:57, 29 December 2023
- root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (I milk), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω or amélgō ...3 KB (438 words) - 22:56, 29 August 2023
- German Sommer (summer), German Sommer (summer), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (summer), Swedish sommar (summer), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic ...4 KB (481 words) - 21:39, 29 September 2023
- Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...21 KB (3,171 words) - 09:45, 11 March 2023
- units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave ... control of the island for six months. The Danish, who controlled the island ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
- Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen ...13 KB (2,057 words) - 18:02, 14 May 2024
- *1890 Danish Palaces *1891 Memory of Azov *1892 Diamond Trellis ... *1903 Royal Danish† *1904 No eggs known *1905 No eggs known ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian ...4 KB (557 words) - 19:58, 30 September 2023
- with Zealand and the other islands in the Danish archipelago—is typically ... Foundation, established in 1910 by the Danish-American industrialist Niels ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- arrival of the Vikings, in particular the Danish Great Heathen Army, upset ... Kingdom of York and Dublin rose and fell. Danish and Norwegian settlement ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation. ... were attached to the diocese of Zealand. A Danish royal trade monopoly, their ...28 KB (4,130 words) - 00:27, 25 March 2024
- After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ... despite the intermittent assaults of Danish raiding parties. This relative ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- – September 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who demonstrated ... Notable also is his definition of the new Danish mile. It was 24,000 Danish ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- 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
- Trying out a new edit? Use the template's sandbox! {| class="infobox vcard" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: left; width: ...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) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- 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
- has its roots in the nineteenth century Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard ... A century before Camus, the nineteenth century Danish philosopher ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- German, brug in Dutch, brúgv in Faroese or bro in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish). ==History== The first bridges were spans made of wooden logs ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. (February 3, 1889 - March 20, 1968) was a ... had increasing connections with the young Danish film industry, which got ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- #039;s Duke Richard II, to escape the Danish invasion of England. Edward ... for Norman favourites frustrated Saxon and Danish nobles alike, fuelling the ...18 KB (2,742 words) - 23:55, 12 February 2024
- founded Serampore College in what was then a Danish colony. ... delayed until June, when Thomas found a Danish captain willing to offer ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- nyker in Old Norwegian, nykur in Icelandic, nok in Danish and finally, Neck in Swedish.Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Press, 1971) ISBN 019861117X ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- receiving the title of Master of the Danish Royal Chapel. After the dissolution of the opera troop, Keiser returned once more to Hamburg, but ...6 KB (870 words) - 03:05, 8 December 2022
- to the jeweler Gustav Fabergé and his Danish wife Charlotte Jungstedt. His mother was the daughter of a Danish painter, and his father was ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 01:07, 24 November 2022
- phenomenon first described by the Danish scientist Rasmus Bartholin in 1669. == Uses == Calcite (especially as limestone) is an important building ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- * Common Swedish and Danish form: Asgård * Norwegian: Åsgard (also ... * Grammaticus, Saxo. The Danish History. Translated by Oliver Elton ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- jerv, regular Swedish name järv and regular Danish name jærv. == Notes == == References == * Armitage, P. 1992. Religious ideology among the ...15 KB (2,106 words) - 14:50, 17 April 2023
- Dread or Angst as a philosophical term originated primarily through the work of the nineteenth century Danish existential philosopher and theologian ...8 KB (1,159 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- current), Dutch ras (a strong whirling current), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås. ==Noun== race (countable and uncountable ...7 KB (1,089 words) - 16:36, 31 August 2023
- the Strait are named for Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer who ... 1648. Both are named for Vitus Bering, a Danish captain who was taken into ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- merely fits the description of bugt as used in Danish. One may therefore conclude that fjord was one of the names used by Germanic tribes to describe ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- === Russian and Danish ballet === After 1850, interest in ballet began ... notably in the stagings of the Royal Danish Ballet, the Sadler's ...26 KB (3,932 words) - 16:13, 30 August 2023
- model, however, was not Moliere, but the great Danish playwright Holberg, whom he read in German, and some of whose plays he had translated. ...7 KB (1,096 words) - 02:31, 25 August 2020
- numeric sorting and alphabetic sorting occur in Danish and Norwegian (aa is ordered at the end of the alphabet when it is pronounced like å, and at ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- venues in the world. Designed by Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect, the Sydney Opera House is one of the most distinctive and famous twentieth-century ...15 KB (2,320 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- at Kiel from 1838 to 1843. Thanks to a Danish grant, he was able to visit France and Italy to study preserved classical Roman inscriptions. During ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- at Tel Shiloh began in the years 1922-1932, by a Danish expedition. The finds were placed in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen. In 1980, Israel ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- A year before Emma's marriage, a Danish fleet had pillaged the Sussex ... ===The Danish Invasion=== [[Image:Viking Expansion.svg|thumb|Map showing ...42 KB (6,697 words) - 18:48, 31 December 2021
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- * Gurkemeje in Danish. * Gurkemeie in Norwegian. * Kurkuma or Japonský šafrán (literal: Japanese Safron) in Czech. * Kunyit in Indonesian ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- subject in Christiansted, Saint Croix, in the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), to Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents, Phillip Benjamin ...16 KB (2,409 words) - 06:37, 28 February 2023
- for his defense of the kingdom against the Danish Vikings. Alfred is the only ... Stone. Alfred led the army and met the Danish host at Edington. Traditionally ...34 KB (5,332 words) - 20:42, 20 July 2023
- *the Danish intervention, *the Swedish intervention, and ... ===Danish intervention=== Period: 1625–1629 Peace in the Empire was ...41 KB (6,305 words) - 18:37, 30 April 2023
- , brandenburg Lease territory in the Danish West Indies; 1685–1720 in USA), brandenburgische Annexion in the Danish West Indies; 1689–1693 ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- 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
