Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish crown territories of the Faroe Islands ( where it is also an official language after Faroese ) and Greenland ( where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut ), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland.

A new Danish translation with the text in Old Norse and a Latin translation came out in 1777-1783 ( by order of Frederick VI as crown prince ).

In principle this meant the Norwegian crown, but under the Danish union ( the monarch lived in Denmark ) this meant that they were henceforth controlled from Denmark and not from Norway.

Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.

* The trade monopoly with Iceland is transferred to the Danish crown.

In 1721, when the Great Northern War ended, the dukes of Gottorf lost their power and their land became Danish crown land.

The shield is surmounted by the imperial crown, and supported by the crowned lion of England and a wild man or savage from the Danish royal arms.

Danish intervention on France's behalf during the Napoleonic Wars ended with the severing of Denmark-Norway under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, which granted mainland Norway to Sweden but retained the former Norwegian colonies under the Danish crown.

Its southern neighbour Holstein in personal union with the Danish crown was always a German principality.

Faced with the potential overthrow of the Danish crown, Christian stood down and dismissed his own government, installing a compromise cabinet until elections could be held later that year.

From approximately 1200 until 1864, the area that is now Nordfriesland was a part of the Duchy of Schleswig, which itself was not directly a part of the Danish Kingdom, but a fiefdom of the Danish crown and linked to the kings of Denmark by personal union as a separate entity.

In 1761 the Duchy fell back into the hands of the Danish crown.

In the mid-19th century, the Danish crown prince spent a few years of his summer vacation in Plön Castle, since when it has been decorated in white plaster with a gray roof.

Ratzeburg briefly was part of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, afterwards the Duchy of ( Saxe -) Lauenburg was awarded in personal union to the Danish crown in the Congress of Vienna.

After the Danish crown lost Lauenburg in the Second Schleswig War ( 1864 ), Lauenburg's estates of the realm offered the dukedom to the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty in personal union, who accepted in 1865.

* The Danish crown had been a member only in chief of its duchy of Holstein.

The result was that in 1576, control of Rønne returned to the Danish crown.

The word króna, meaning " crown ", is related to those of other Nordic currencies ( such as the Danish krone, Swedish krona and Norwegian krone ) and to the Latin word corona (" crown ").

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.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.

The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

One of the terms of the surrender was that Guthrum convert to Christianity ; and three weeks later the Danish king and 29 of his chief men were baptised at Alfred's court at Aller, near Athelney, with Alfred receiving Guthrum as his spiritual son.

Alfred however was still forced to contend with a number of Danish threats.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

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 Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

Between the restoration of London and the resumption of large scale Danish attacks in the early 890s, Alfred ’ s reign was rather uneventful.

Absalon or Axel ( – 21 March 1201 ) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death.

He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.

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

Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.

Absalon was a close counsellor of Valdemar, and chief promotor of the Danish crusades against the Wends.

It was also Absalon who held the first Danish Synod at Lund in 1167.

Under Canute VI, Absalon was the chief policymaker in Danish politics.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

This represented the final Danish rejection of German supremacy.

Even though the declaration was signed in Copenhagen and with the approval of the Danish government, it was drawn in Swedish and Icelandic only, without the Danish language being represented.

He also suggested that local place names like Winewall, Daneshouse, and Warcock hill could be significant and that the Cuerdale Hoard represented a Danish war chest lost as a result of the battle.

German national liberals and the left demanded that Schleswig be admitted to the German Confederation and be represented at the national assembly, while Danish national liberals wanted to incorporate Schleswig into a new Danish national state.

Browne was adept in no fewer than five contemporary languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Danish ; these languages as well as Greek and Hebrew and the predominant written form of the Renaissance, namely Latin, are all represented in his Library.

Her godparents were her paternal uncle The Prince Leopold ( for whom The Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel ( represented by Prince Francis of Teck ); Count Gleichen ; the Duchess of Nassau ( for whom Princess Francis of Teck ); the King of Sweden and Norway ( who was represented by Baron Hochschild, the Swedish minister ); the Princess of Leiningen ( represented by Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde ); her maternal aunt the Tsarevna of Russia ( represented by the Baroness de Brunnow, the Russian ambassador's wife ); the Crown Princess of Denmark ( represented by Madame de Bülow, the Danish Minister's wife ); and the Duchess of Inverness ( widow of Queen Victoria's uncle the Duke of Sussex ).

The Danish minority is represented by the South Schleswig Voter Federation ( SSW ) in the Diet ( Landtag ) of Schleswig-Holstein.

Under the next University Act ( 1992 ), people outside the university were once again represented in the administration and under 2003 Act, all Danish universities are governed by a university board.

Anna Ancher's works have often represented Danish art abroad.

With his brother Joachim, he represented Denmark at the Congress of Vienna and, as a member for the commission for the regulation of the affairs of the German confederation, was responsible for some of that confusion of Danish and German interests which was to bear bitter fruit later in the Schleswig-Holstein question.

He also represented the Danish under-21s in five games from June 1987 to November 1988.

As a model she is represented by the Danish agency Bornmodels.

More than 300 players have represented Brøndby in the Danish leagues, cups and the European competitions since 1964.

The Danish West India and Guinea Company represented the first Europeans to settle the island in 1718.

Inuit Ataqatigiit is represented in the Folketing, the Danish parliament, by Sara Olsvig.

The new legislation was opposed by the Danish People's Party and the Christian Democrats, a religious conservative party, although the latter are currently not represented in the Danish Parliament.

He won two Danish football championships with Brøndby IF and two MLS Cup trophies with San Jose Earthquakes, and represented a number of clubs, including FC Barcelona and several teams in English football.