He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

It is derived from " Taani linn ", meaning " Danish town " in Estonian.

Between 1912 and 1971 the name of the town was officially spelled Hälsingborg ( rather like the region of Hälsingland but unlike neighbouring Danish Helsingør and the Finnish capital Helsingfors ( Helsinki )).

* 1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

While the Swedes made only one failed foray into western Estonia in 1220, the Danish Fleet headed by King Valdemar II of Denmark had landed at the Estonian town of Lindanisse ( present-day Tallinn ) in 1219.

During one of her visits she met and later married Edward Lind, a Danish merchant who worked in the Hacienda La Henriqueta in the town of Arroyo.

Up to the 13th century the Scandinavians and Henry of Livonia in his chronicle called the town Lindanisa: Lyndanisse in Danish, Lindanäs in Swedish, also mentioned as Ledenets in Old East Slavic.

After the Danish conquest in 1219 the town became known in the German, Swedish and Danish languages as Reval ().

The Danish kings, who were also counts of Oldenburg at the time, were not much interested in the condition of the town and it lost most of its former importance.

William of Jumièges also mentions Rollo's prehistory in his Gesta Normannorum Ducum, but states that he was from the Danish town of Fakse.

Tórshavn (; Danish: Thorshavn ) is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands.

And later, in 1909, Tórshavn became a market town with the same municipal charter as Danish market towns.

Christiansted, the main town of St. Croix in the former Danish West Indies

The Danish town of Solvang was built up around the Mission proper in the early 1900s.

Glücksburg ( Amt-free town ), Wees ( Amt Langballig ), Maasbüll, Hürup, Tastrup and Freienwill ( all in Amt Hürup ), Jarplund-Weding, Handewitt ( Amt Handewitt ), Harrislee ( Amt-free community ) and Aabenraa Municipality on the Danish side of the Flensburg Fjord.

Many times the town passed from Danish to German control and vice versa.

Although it was the Danish king's summer residence from time to time, it remained otherwise a sleepy provincial town of about 2, 000 inhabitants.

For the Danish town, see Frederikshavn, and for the Finnish town, see Fredrikshamn ( Finnish: Hamina ).

The counterparts of English " mayor " are thus in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia as follows: German Bürgermeister, Dutch burgemeester ; French-speaking parts of Belgium bourgmestre ; Luxemburgish buergermeeschter ; Estonian bürgermeister ( a German loan word, pronounced pürjermeister ); Swedish borgmästare ; Norwegian borgermester ; Danish borgmester ; Icelandic borgarstjóri ( in a city, i. e. Reykjavík ) and bæjarstjóri ( of a town ); and Faroese borgarstjóri.

The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.

While much was done to create an " authentic " Danish atmosphere in the town center, it has been pointed out by Scandinavians that fake thatched roofs and artificial timbering are largely a result of local interests in general rather than those of the Danish immigrants themselves.

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

The Danish raids had also a devastating impact on learning in England.

* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.

This matches with the royal house of England in the early 11th Century being Danish, making the poem politically compatible with this time period.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

Many words derived from Norse, such as " gate " ( gade ) for street, still survive in Yorkshire and the East Midlands ( parts of eastern England ) colonized by Danish Vikings.

Many merchants from Amsterdam and Zeeland decided to work with marine and merchants from Hamburg, Glückstadt ( then Danish ), England and other countries.

Chief among the Viking states was the Empire of Cnut the Great, a Danish leader who would become king of England, Denmark and Norway.

The Old East Norse dialect was spoken in Denmark, Sweden, settlements in Russia, England, and Danish settlements in Normandy.

Rosencrantz decides that he is happy to accompany Hamlet to England because it means freedom from the orders of the Danish court.

The long-term linguistic effect of the Viking settlements in England was threefold: over a thousand Old Norse words eventually became part of Standard English ; numerous places in the East and North-east of England have Danish names, and many English personal names are of Scandinavian origin.

Likewise, King Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, had Danish ancestors.

This victory postponed Danish conquests in England for fifteen years, but raids on Wessex continued.

In 865, another enormous Danish army arrived in England.

Wessex was invaded in 871, and although Aethelred and Alfred won some victories and succeeded in preventing the conquest of their kingdom, a number of defeats, heavy losses of men and the arrival of a fresh Danish army in England compelled Alfred to pay the Danes to leave Wessex.

In the 890s these reforms helped him to repulse the invasion of another huge Danish army – which was aided by the Danes settled in England – with minimal losses.

After the invasions of the 890s, Wessex and English Mercia continued to be attacked by the Danish settlers in England, and by small Danish raiding forces from overseas, but these incursions were usually defeated, while there were no further major invasions from the continent.

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

However, Swedish-speakers often consider Bornholmian to be easier to understand than standard Danish.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

* A Danish pastry, often simply called " Danish "

The insect-winged fairies in British folklore are often called " älvor " in modern Swedish or " alfer " in Danish, although the correct translation is " feer ".

It has often been suggested that Erlkönig is a mistranslation from the original Danish ellerkonge or elverkonge, which does mean " elf king ".

In Danish, the word " fregat " is often applied to warships carrying as few as 16 guns, such as HMS Falcon ( 1802 ) which the British classified as a sloop.

The unicorn horns often found in cabinets of curiosities and other contexts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, were very often examples of the distinctive straight spiral single tusk of the narwhal ( Monodon monoceros ), an Arctic cetacean, as Danish zoologist Ole Worm established in 1638.

Last names found in the region are very often of Scandinavian or Danish form, with the-sen endings like Petersen.

It is also assumed that Danish rulers often held sway in the Oslofjord-area.

Named for Hans Christian Ørsted ( often rendered Oersted in English ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851 ), a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism.

Piet Hein ( 16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996 ) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym " Kumbel " meaning " tombstone ".

He received his third Swedish Guldbagge and his second Danish Bodil for his depiction of a character often described as his King Lear.

The most noticeable aspect of Danish boiled sausages ( never the fried ones ) is that the cover often contains a traditional bright-red dye.

Fynsk Foraar ( Springtime on Funen ), completed in 1922, is often cited as the most Danish of all Nielsen's compositions as it extols the beauty of Funen's countryside.

Her Danish background made her situation more difficult ; while Charles was away to inspect his troops or pursuing his pastimes, she was often lonely and sad.

Danish retailers report that they often lack information about the composition of sex toys that they sell.

She showed solidarity toward the Danish population, and could often be seen on her bicycle or with her baby cart on the streets of Copenhagen during the war.

In medieval times, speakers of all the Scandinavian languages could understand one another to a significant degree and it was often referred to as a single language, called the " Danish tongue " until the 13th century by some in Sweden and Iceland.

Although Danish never became the spoken language of the vast majority of the population, by the time Norway's ties with Denmark were severed in 1814, a Dano-Norwegian vernacular often called the " educated daily speech " had become the mother tongue of parts of the urban elite.

Audio feedback or acoustic feedback, often referred to simply as " feedback ", ( also known as the Larsen effect after the Danish scientist, Søren Absalon Larsen, who first discovered its principles ) is a special kind of positive feedback which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input ( for example, a microphone or guitar pickup ) and an audio output ( for example, a loudspeaker ).

Years later it became a favorite book of the Danish physicist and thinker Niels Bohr, who often quoted it during lectures.