The earliest known crime novel is " The Rector of Veilbye " by the Danish author Steen Steensen Blicher, published in 1829.

The Crime Festival-in Danish called Krimimessen-is an event for literary crime, mysteries and thrillers.

* The Protectors ( Danish TV series ), a 2008-2011 crime series

* Untitled remake of the Swedish / Danish crime thriller The Bridge for Sky Atlantic and French broadcaster Canal +

* The Eagle ( television series ), an Emmy-winning Danish crime series

Pusher II ( also known as Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands ) is a 2004 Danish crime film written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

Independent producer Benjamin Christensen had great success with the spy film Det hemmelighedsfulde X ( The Mysterious X or Sealed Orders, 1914 ) and the crime drama Hævnens Nat ( Blind Justice or The Night of Revenge, 1916 ), both of which are major works in the history of the Danish cinema.

* The Parson of Veilbye, written in the first person, is the first Danish crime novel.

It was first established on March 4, 1952, as Virgin Islands National Historic Site through the initiative of concerned local citizens, to preserve the historic structures and grounds within its boundaries, and to interpret the Danish economy and way of life, including colonial administration, military and naval establishment, international trade ( including slave trade ), religious diversity, architecture, trades and crime and punishment, between 1733 and 1917.

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul ( 1911 ). Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar, who constructed the great hall Heorot for his people.

In the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerized account of his story.

It was the aging countess who told the story of the first Danish Christmas tree to the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen in 1865.

One would imagine, though, that if this story were true, some kind of record ought to exist of the event, and presumably Danish historians would not have failed to mention it in some way.

The elves in this story are more alike those of traditional Danish folklore, who were beautiful females, living in hills and boulders, capable of dancing a man to death.

The story opens on a chilly night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle.

Many of the smaller buildings from this time are typical Scanian: two story urban houses that show a strong Danish influence.

The Old English poem Widsith ( 9th century ) refers briefly to his victorious single combat, a story which is related at length by the 12th-century Danish historians Saxo and Svend Aggesen.

In the notes to the Danish publication of the story ( Hall of Fame-Don Rosa Book 10 ), it is stated that the publisher decided that Hortense was " officially dead ".

In the notes to the Danish publication of the story ( Hall of Fame-Don Rosa Book 10 ), it is stated that the publisher decided that Hortense was " officially dead ".

The story examines religion through the eyes of Alex, a Christian political activist who is corrupted by Margrethe, a Danish Norse cruise ship hostess — and who loves every minute of it.

The Danish National Council released a detailed explanation of the real Olaf's death in 1387 to contradict the story that had spread around the Baltic.

It is a fictional, romantic story revolving around the life of the famous Danish poet and story-teller Hans Christian Andersen.

Older than these is the Old English poem Beowulf which applies the story of the boy in the boat instead to the Danish who is the eponym of the legendary Danish royal lineage known as the Scyldings or Skjöldings.

The four-act Saul og David ( Saul and David ), written in 1902 to a libretto by Einar Christiansen tells the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David while Maskarade ( Masquerade ) is a comic opera in three acts written in 1906 to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg.

Berlevåg is also the place for the fictional story " Babette's Feast " by the Danish author Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen published in the anthology " Seven Gothic Tales " 1934.

The film inspired the Danish story Mit dumme hjerte by Victor Skaarup.

In the 1952 film musical Hans Christian Andersen based on the life of the Danish poet and story-teller Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye, the story of The Emperor's New Clothes is told in The King's New Clothes as one of the film's eight songs.

This story — the only item in the entire canon not of Danish origin — was included on the list of children's culture items, alongside LEGO building blocks.

" 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.

Danish author Karen Blixen ( Isak Dinesen ) has a story within the tale titled " The Deluge of Norderney " in her Seven Gothic Tales.

Remember how by lack of two big theaters Chicago missed the first visit of the Royal Danish Ballet??

They were deciphered in 1893 by the Danish linguist Vilhelm Thomsen in a scholarly race with his rival, the Germano-Russian linguist Wilhelm Radloff.

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.

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

The chronicler flattered his royal patron by boasting that Alfred's ships were not only larger, but swifter, steadier and rode higher in the water than either Danish or Frisian ships.

During the Danish civil war, Denmark had been open to coastal raids by the Wends.

* 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.

Vehicle built by railway shop workers for the Danish resistance movement, near the end of World War II

Sertindole was developed by the Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck.

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

The Spanish Empire claimed the islands by discovery in the early 16th century, but never settled them, and subsequent years saw the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danish all jostling for control of the region, which became a notorious haunt for pirates.

** based on the book by Danish writer Bjarne Reuter

** based on the book by Danish writer Bjarne Reuter

** based on a novel by Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø

** based on the novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg.

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.

Encouraged by this promise ( whatever it was worth ) the States-General agreed to release the Danish contingent of seven battalions and 22 squadrons as a reinforcement.