* The Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages

Speakers of Old East Norse would have said dansk tunga (" Danish tongue ") or norrønt mál (" Nordic speech ").

Though Danish, Blixen wrote her books in English and then translated her work into her native tongue.

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.

The Norman conquest of England, being a conquest by a people whose tongue and institutions were different from those of the English in many aspects, was an event of an altogether different character from the Danish conquest, a conquest by a people whose tongue was more akin to those of the English, but whose religion was pagan.

Between 10, 000 and 20, 000 of them have Danish as their mother tongue.

) and likewise the number of electors of the Danish party are considered to indicate people being Danish, although it has to be mentioned that the data records of the organisations are not linked among themselves and-what is more-the majority of users and members do not have Danish as their mother tongue.

* Rasmus Seebach is a Danish singer-songwriter who sings in his mother tongue language.

Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter of King Danp, the son of Ríg, who was first called konungr in the Danish tongue ).

Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter of King Danp, the son of Ríg, who was first called konungr in the Danish tongue.

: Dygvi's mother was Drótt, a daughter of King Danp, the son of Ríg, who was first called konungr in the Danish tongue.

At first Danish was used primarily in writing ; later it came to be spoken on formal or official occasions ; and by the time Norway's ties with Denmark were severed in 1814, a Dano-Norwegian vernacular often called the " cultivated everyday speech " had become the mother tongue of parts of the urban elite.

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.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

* Shakespeare's Hamlet is an anagram for the Danish Prince Amleth.

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

* 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 view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.

Confirmation is afforded by English and Danish traditions relating to two kings named Wermund and Offa of Angel, from whom the Mercian royal family claimed descent and whose exploits are connected with Angeln, Schleswig, and Rendsburg.

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsting ( one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen ); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation.

It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands.

* In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans ( Oossee ), Danish ( Østersøen ), Dutch ( Oostzee ), German ( Ostsee ), Icelandic and Faroese ( Eystrasalt ), Norwegian ( Østersjøen ), and Swedish ( Östersjön ).

The Baltic Sea flows out through the Danish straits ; however, the flow is complex.

Below 40 to 70 m, the salinity is between 10 and 15 ‰ in the open Baltic Sea, and more than this near Danish Straits.

Near the Danish straits the salinity is close to that of the Kattegat, but still not fully oceanic, because the saltiest water that passes the straits is still already mixed with considerable amounts of outflow water.

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.

Bjarne Stroustrup (); born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark ) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C ++ programming language.

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

Bornholm (; Old Norse: Burgundaholmr, " the island of the Burgundians ") is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of ( most of ) the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, and north of Poland.

Many inhabitants speak bornholmsk ( Bornholmian ), which officially is a dialect of Danish.

Bornholm Regional Municipality is the local authority ( Danish, kommune ) covering the entire island.

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

* A Danish pastry, often simply called " Danish "

Old East Norse is in Sweden called Runic Swedish and in east Denmark Runic Danish, but until the 12th century, the dialect was roughly the same in the two countries.

A rare feature is the presence of a prosodic feature called stød in Danish ( lit.

After working with the DuckTales magazine, Rosa found out that the Danish publisher Egmont ( at that time called Gutenberghus ) was publishing reprints of his stories and wanted more.

In 2009, Danish director Sebastian S. Cordes shot a 75-minute documentary called The Life and Times of Don Rosa, consisting of exclusive interviews with Rosa himself on his farm near Louisville, Kentucky.

The British and Danish Conservatives tried to maintain a group of their own called the European Democrats ( ED ), but lack of support and the problems inherent in maintaining a small group forced ED's collapse in the 1990s, and its members crossed the floor to join the EPP Group.

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

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

However, a planned referendum on a roadmap towards independence in 2001 was called off following Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen saying that Danish money grants would be phased out within four years if there was a ' yes ' vote.

The Royal Danish Navy operates a dog sled patrol called Sirius-patruljen, based in Daneborg.

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( commonly called Kaj Munk ) ( 13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944 ) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.

There are movements for considering Malmö as part of the Copenhagen metropolitan area or an even larger metropolitan area, which would be called Örestad in Swedish and Ørestad in Danish, since it would consist of all the towns around the Sound.

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.

These pirates, which are called wichingi by their own people, and Ascomanni by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king " in the fourth volume of his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum.

Adam of Bremen's claim regarding Otto I and Harald appears to have been inspired by an attempt to manufacture a historical reason for the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen to claim jurisdiction over Denmark ( and thus the rest of Scandinavia ); in the 1070s, the Danish King was in Rome asking for Denmark to have its own arch-bishop, and Adam's account of Harald's supposed conversion ( and baptism of both him and his " little son " Sweyn, with Otto serving as Sweyn's godfather ) is followed by the unambiguous claim that " At that time Denmark on this side of the sea, which is called Jutland by the inhabitants, was divided into three dioceses and subjected to the bishopric of Hamburg.

In 1852, the great powers called a conference in London to discuss the Danish succession.

Editors of all Danish newspapers sent a joint public letter to Theodor Heuss that called the planned award an " unfriendly act " that showed contempt for the feelings of the people of Denmark, and asked him to give back his Ehrenbürger of Kiel status if Raeder was given back his.

The famous Trundholm sun chariot ( called Solvognen in Danish ), a sculpture of the sun pulled by a mare.

He called up a fleet of 1, 000 Danish ships, 60 Norwegian long boats, with plans to meet with another 600 ships under Duke Robert of Flanders in the summer of 1086.

This resulted in a three-year civil war called the Count's Feud ( Danish: Grevens Fejde ).

The strait is today called Øresund in Danish and Öresund in Swedish, informally Sundet in both languages.

In the period of counterculture in the Western World of the 1960s and 1970s, a commune called Maos Lyst ( Mao's Delight ) was founded in Denmark in 1968, its inhabitants replacing their surnames with Kløvedal, Danish for Rivendell, inspired by Tolkien's Elven outpost.