Search results for "Danish" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
