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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 ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Århus – September 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who demonstrated that light had a finite speed by measuring apparent changes in the ...
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  • game), Eequivalent to game + -le. Compare Old Danish gammel, Middle High German gamel (pleasure; fun). ==Noun== gambling (usually uncountable ...
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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 ...
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  • female), German Weib (woman, wife, female), Danish viv (wife, woman), Norwegian viv (wife, woman, girl), Swedish viv (woman), Faroese vív (wife, woman ...
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  • Frisian fiedsel (food), Dutch voedsel (food), Danish føde (food), Swedish föda (food), Icelandic fæða, fæði (food), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 ...
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  • German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (length), Danish længde (length), Swedish längd (length), Icelandic lengd (length). ==Noun== ...
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  • * Danish * Dutch ** Standard ** Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect * English ** Australian ** General American ** New Zealand ** Received Pronunciation ...
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  • Sweerd, Schwert (sword), German Schwert (sword), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (sword), Icelandic sverð (sword), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ ...
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  • Cognate with Scots flude, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð. ==Noun== flood (plural floods) # A (usually disastrous) overflow ...
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  • , German Waffe (weapon) and Wappen (coat of arms), Danish våben (weapon, coat of arms), Swedish vapen (weapon, coat of arms), Norwegian Bokmål våpen ...
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  • kleding (clothing), German Kleidung (clothing), Danish klædning (clothing, dress, attire), Swedish klädning (dress). Doublet of the dialectal English ...
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  • German Sänger, German Sänger (“singer”), Danish sanger, Swedish sångare, Icelandic söngvari. ===Noun=== singer (plural singers) ...
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  • leder, leer (leather), German Leder (leather), Danish læder (leather), Swedish läder (leather), Icelandic leður (leather). ==Noun== ...
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  • Frisian and Dutch wolf, German Wolf, Norwegian and Danish ulv; also Sanskrit वृक or vṛ́ka, Persian گرگ or gorg, Lithuanian vilkas, Russian ...
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  • , Dutch winter (winter), German Winter (winter), Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian vinter (winter), Icelandic vetur (winter). ==Noun== ...
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  • Germanic origin. Probably from or related to Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed ...
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  • The elder Frederick, a Danish military officer, had been one (and perhaps the foremost) of the candidates of Christian VIII of Denmark to succeed ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • hand she spared no pains to recover lost Danish territory. She purchased ... under such stringent conditions that the Danish crown got all the advantage ...
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  • himins (heaven, sky), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch ...
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  • illusions developed around 1915, by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin ... 1915, in Rubin's two-volume work, the Danish-language Synsoplevede Figurer ...
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  • (wood, twig), Middle High German wite (wood), Danish ved (wood), Swedish ved (firewood), Icelandic viður (wood). Further cognates include Irish fiodh ...
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  • Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; also more ...
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  • root as the noun. Compare Dutch and German melken, Danish malke, Norwegian mjølke, also Latin mulgeō (I milk), Ancient Greek ἀμέλγω or amélgō ...
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  • German Sommer (summer), German Sommer (summer), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer (summer), Swedish sommar (summer), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic ...
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  • Niels (Henrik David) Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding ...
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  • units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave ... control of the island for six months. The Danish, who controlled the island ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *1890 Danish Palaces *1891 Memory of Azov *1892 Diamond Trellis ... *1903 Royal Danish† *1904 No eggs known *1905 No eggs known ...
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  • Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian ...
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  • with Zealand and the other islands in the Danish archipelago—is typically ... Foundation, established in 1910 by the Danish-American industrialist Niels ...
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  • arrival of the Vikings, in particular the Danish Great Heathen Army, upset ... Kingdom of York and Dublin rose and fell. Danish and Norwegian settlement ...
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  • in the Nordic Council as a part of the Danish delegation. ... were attached to the diocese of Zealand. A Danish royal trade monopoly, their ...
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  • After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ... despite the intermittent assaults of Danish raiding parties. This relative ...
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  • – 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 ...
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  • The original name for the city, from which the contemporary Danish ... quot; denotes "commerce" in Danish). It was repeatedly attacked ...
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  • rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish. [http://skaldic ... During the period of union with Denmark, Danish replaced Norwegian. The university ...
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  • ravaged. The expeditions were usually led by the Danish kings, but they were composed by warriors from all over Scandinavia, and they eventually brought ...
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  • time of the year, opportune time, opportunity), Danish time (hour, lesson), Swedish timme (hour), Norwegian time (time, hour), Faroese tími (hour ...
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  • Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Icelandic grænn. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • largest and densest concentration of the Danish population, centering on ... There is little elevation to the Danish landscape at all; the highest ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • There are two main types of seine nets: purse seines and Danish seines. ... Danish seine A Danish seine, also occasionally called an anchor seine ...
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