A Danish coat of arms in the German-Nordic tradition.

The content of the treaty is known from the not entirely reliable, but originating directly from the Danish court tradition account given by Adam of Bremen.

This newly established Danish interest in British cask beer and the British pub tradition is reflected by the fact that some 56 British cask beers were available at the 2008 European Beer Festival in Copenhagen, which was attended by more than 20, 000 people.

According to Danish historians, no bynames at all have been given to Christian II in Danish historical tradition.

The 6th century chronicler Jordanes reports a tradition that they had been driven out of their homeland by the North Germanic Dani, which places their origins in the Danish isles or southernmost Sweden.

Shortly afterwards, and obviously influenced by the emerging Father Christmas traditions as well as the new Danish tradition, a variant of the tomte / nisse, called the jultomte in Sweden and julenisse in Norway, started bringing the Christmas presents in Sweden and Norway, instead of the traditional julbock ( Yule Goat ).

Blålys was introduced in 1960, although it was not Denmark's first Christmas beer, Blålys effectively started the tradition of Danish Christmas beers.

A skaldic tradition describes the bridge's destruction in 1014 by Æthelred's ally Olaf, to divide the Danish forces who held both the walled City of London and Southwark.

Early settlers of the Danebod colony ( located on the south side of Tyler ) founded a residential school in the Danish tradition of Folk High Schools and fostered the concept of " learning for living " by which individuals sought to become enlightened and thoughtful citizens.

The Danish tradition for allotment gardens later spread to the other Scandinavian countries ; first Sweden, then Norway and Finland.

Contrary to the tradition of most American dormitories, Danish dormitories in general, and the old dormitories in particular, only offer single rooms for rent, meaning no student has to share their room with others.

The " Daintree " Shakespeare wrote about, the name persisting to this day, spelt Danetre, grew from a tradition that Danish settlers planted an oak tree on the summit of Borough Hill to mark the centre of England.

It was an official holiday until 1770, and in accordance with the Danish tradition of celebrating a holiday on the evening before the actual day, it takes place on the evening of 23 June.

A commemorative article in the 2006 edition of the Harvard Magazine states: Child ’ s enthusiasm and erudition shine throughout his systematic attempt to set the British ballad tradition in context with others, whether Danish, Serbian, or Turkish.

Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage ( early 6th century ) was a legendary Danish king who appears in both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition.

" Rorik is the form we would expect Hreðric to take in Danish and we find personages named Rorik or Hrok or similar in most version of the Hrólf Kraki tradition but differently accounted for, seemingly indicating that Scandinavian tradition had forgotten who exactly Hreðric / Rorik / Hrok was and various story tellers subsequently invented details to explain references to this personage in older poems.

Rasmussen's government relied on the Danish People's Party for support, keeping with the Danish tradition of minority government.

Another popular Danish theatrical tradition is the revue which has been thriving since the mid 19th century.

Some fine examples of sculptured stones occur, especially those that, according to tradition, mark the burial-place of the three sons of a Danish king who were shipwrecked off the coast of Nigg.

Doctrinally, the Danish Baptists have evolved from a generally Calvinistic closed Baptist tradition to a more Arminian ecumenical body.

Fish consumption is a natural part of the Danish food tradition.

Contemporary furniture that is neither Danish nor straight-line modern but has sculptured pattern, many design facets, warmth, dignity and an effect of utter comfort and livability.

The term " multitasking " has become an international term, as the same word in many other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian.

The Danish prosodic feature stød is an example of a form of laryngealisation that has a phonemic function.

The Danish Defence, counting all branches and all departments, itself has an income equal to about 1 – 5 % of its expenditures, depending on the year.

Danish is widely spoken in Greenland, and an unknown portion of the native Greenlandic population has Danish as their first language.

More than 25 % of all Danish speakers live in the metropolitan area of the capital and most government agencies, institutions and major businesses keep their main offices in Copenhagen, something that has resulted in a very homogeneous national speech norm.

Today, influx of Standard Swedish and Standard Danish vocabulary has generally meant that Scanian and Bornholmian are closer to the modern national standards of their respective host nations than to each other.

The Bornholmian dialect has also maintained to this day many ancient features, such as a distinction between three grammatical genders, which the central Insular Danish dialects gave up during the 20th century.

Standard Danish has two genders and the definite form of nouns is formed by the use of suffixes, while Western Jutlandic has only one gender and the definite form of nouns uses an article before the noun itself, in the same fashion as West Germanic languages.

Whether the flag has its origins in a divine sign, a banner of a military order, an ecclesiastical banner, or perhaps something entirely different, Danish literature is no help before the early 15th century.

This image has been used to acknowledge a previously disputed theory that the cross found in Valdemar Atterdag's coats of arms located in his Danælog seal ( Rettertingsseglet ) from 1356 is indeed the cross from the Danish flag.

The name " Erlang ", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been understood as a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang, and ( initially at least ) simultaneously as an abbreviation of " Ericsson Language ".

In a similar vein, the alf found in the fairy tale The Elf of the Rose by Danish author H. C. Andersen is so tiny that he can have a rose blossom for home, and has " wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet ".

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

Since 2001, the Royal Danish Army has been involved in the War in Afghanistan as part of the ISAF.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

The present economy consists of a big public sector and comprehensive foreign trade, which has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth, considerable inflation, unemployment problems and extreme dependence on capital inflow from Denmark and use of outside, mainly Danish, skilled labor.

While the Greenland Home Rule Government has primary sovereignty over mineral deposits on the mainland, oil resources are within the domain of the Danish exclusive economic zone.

* A researcher from the University of Copenhagen pointed out that for years, IKEA has named their cheap rugs after Danish places, while the more expensive and luxurious furniture was named after Swedish places.

With certain modifications, the most important of which were introduced later by Aasen himself, but also through a latter policy aiming to merge this Norwegian language with Dano-Norwegian, this language has become Nynorsk (" New Norwegian "), the second of Norway's two official languages ( the other being Bokmål, the Dano-Norwegian descendant of the Danish language used in Norway at Aasen's time ).

The Danish portion has an area of and a population of 2, 513, 601 ( 2007 ).

The American Krag-Jørgensen also has only a single locking lug, whereas the Norwegian and Danish versions effectively had two lugs.