Interesting Facts About The Danish Krone:: Monetary Union, Which Came Into Force in 1873 (And With It The New

Interesting facts about the Danish krone:
 The Danish krone is also the official currency of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
 The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of 18 islands, most of which are
populated, with an area of 1399 km² in total and a population of approximately
49,000 citizens.
 Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, with Margrethe II as Queen.
 The Kingdom of Denmark is distributed along the peninsula of Jutland and 391
islands and islets.
 The krone (in Danish dansk krone, plural kroner) is the official currency of
Denmark and is subdivided into 100 øre.
 Origins and history
 The oldest Danish coins are the so-called korsmønter or “cross coins”
minted by Harald Bluetooth in the late 10th century. Lund was the main
minting place and one of Denmark’s most important cities in the Middle
Ages, but in that era coins were also minted in places like Roskilde,
Odense or Viborg.
 The Danish krone was generally based on a silver standard. Periodically,
the metal value of minted coins was reduced, as thus did not correspond to
their nominal value. This was mainly done to generate income for the
monarch and/or the state. As a result, the population started to lose their
trust in the respective coins and the Danish currency had to be overhauled
several times in an attempt to restore the public trust in the coins, and later
in issued paper money.
 The latter part of the XVIII and much of the XIX experienced an expansion
in economic activity, and with it came a growing need for means of
payment easier to handle than coins. Consequently, banknotes were
increasingly more used than coins.
 The introduction of the new krone was the result of the Scandinavian
Monetary Union, which came into force in 1873 (and with it the new
currency to be adopted two years later) and lasted until World War I. The
parties to the union were the three Scandinavian countries, where the new
currency was named krone in Denmark and Norway, and krona in
Sweden, a word that literally means «crown» in all three languages.
 The Scandinavian Monetary Union came to an end in 1914, when the gold
standard was abandoned. Denmark, Sweden and Norway then decided to
keep the name of their respective, now separated, currencies.
 Denmark later returned to the gold standard in 1924 but left it permanently in
1931. Between 1940 and 1945, the krone was pegged to the German Reichsmark
until the end of the German occupation.

 Current Danish krone banknotes and coins

 Today, banknotes of 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 Danish kroner are in
circulation. You can discover them all by heading over to Banco Denmark's
National Bank.
 1 Danish Krone equals
 8.08 Philippine Piso
https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=DKK&To=PHP
The Mute Swan is the national animal of Denmark. It's one kind
of big white duck, and they usually call it “Knopsvane or
Cygnus olor.” Both are native word of Denmark. Denmark's
national bird Mute Swan is a symbol of peace and polite
substance. The Mute Swan is the national animal of
Denmark. It’s one kind of big white duck, and they usually
call it “Knopsvane or Cygnus olor.” Both are native word of
Denmark. Denmark’s national bird Mute Swan is a symbol
of peace and polite substance. Mute Swan treated as
the national bird of Denmark in 1984 by replacing the
“Skylark Alauda arvensis.”
Once Mute Swan was seen all over Denmark and most of
northern Europe, but it was wiped out by the bird hunters to
make favorite banqueting dishes. Now Mute Swans are
protected by the local law. The scenery has been improved
when took initiative to protect them in some restricted area.
Now it has regained its population. Swans begin to breed
between 3 and 4 years of age. They lay from 5 to 10 eggs from
late April that takes from 35 to 42 days to hatch. They are
the national animal symbol of Denmark.
Facts About Danish National Animal
 Common Name: Knopsvane or Cygnus olor

 Trinomen: Cygnus Atratus
 Type: Bird
 Adopted in: 1984
 Habitat: Grasslands, swamp forests, river
 Main Prey: Aquatic insects, fish, and frogs.

 Color: Black, White, Grey, Orange
 Skin Type: Feathers

 Favorite Food: Aquatic Plants
 Average Length: upto 140 to 160 cm
 Average Weight: 5 – 13 kg (14 – 30 pounds)

 Average Lifespan: 30 years in wild
 Average Speed: Top flight speed is 50 to 55 mph

 Conservation Status: Endangered (IUCN Red List)
 Current number: 500,000

 Predators: Human, Wolf, Raccoon
 Lives in: Eurasia, and the far north of Africa, North America,
Australasia and southern Africa.
You may not determine the difference between male and
female at a glance because they look alike, but if you look
carefully, you can recognize easily. Male Swan is generally
larger than the female. They like to live in cold swamp area and
breed in colonies all over Denmark. It is one of the largest
flying birds that can grow up to 65-inches long, stand about 4
feet high and can spread their wings up to 95 inches, which can
be vicious if confronted or threatened. Their behavior is very
aggressive and voracious appetites often disturb local
ecosystems, displace native species, and even pose a hazard to
humans.
Swans are highly intelligent and remember who has been kind
to them, or not. Swans like to eat aquatic vegetation and
insects, even tiny fish and tadpoles. A male swan is called a
“cob” and a female swan is called a “pen.” The Mute Swan
chooses their partner for life. However, changing of mates does
occur infrequently if their partner dies somehow. Their average
lifespan is about 30 years. Though black, gray, orange color
mute swan also available in this region but only white color
Mute Swan is the national symbol of Denmark that is
considered as the beauty, peace, fierce, majestic and power of
the country.
References:
 “Trinomen of Mute Swan” – The IUCN Red List of Threatened

Species
 “Facts about Mute Swan” – National Geographic

 “Facts about Mute Swan” – All About Birds
 “Quantity of Mute Swan” –Columbia

 “Quantity of Mute Swan in the Denmark” –Science Daily
Wednesday
,
5 June
Constitution Day 2019 in Kingdom of DenmarkConstitution Day

(Denmark)
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Grundlovsdag
The National Constitutional Assembly, 1849
Also called Constitution Day

Observed by Danes
Type National
Significance Anniversary of the Danish constitution

(both the 1849 and 1953 versions)
Celebrations Speeches by politicians
Date 5 June
Next time 5 June 2019
Frequency annual
In Denmark, Constitution Day (Danish: Grundlovsdag) is observed on 5 June.[1][2] The day honors
the Danish Constitution, as both the first constitution of 1849 (which established Denmark as
a constitutional monarchy) and the current constitution of 1953 were signed on this date of their
respective years.[3]
Though it is not an official national holiday per se, collective labor agreements usually give workers
half a day or the whole day off on Constitution Day.[4] Most shops and workplaces close at noon on
this day[5] and political rallies and meetings are traditionally held.[3]
The day is widely celebrated throughout Denmark with church congregations, associations and
political organisations meeting for what is essentially "secular services". These services include the
raising of the Flag, a short presentation by a local politician or celebrity, and collective
singing (Danish: fællessang). Celebrations usually end with coffee and the eating of traditional
buns.[citation needed]
This day is also Father's Day in Denmark.[3][6]
References[edit]
1. ^ National Days – um.dk, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Retrieved 6

February 2012.
2. June 5, 2018
Denmark National Day 2018
3. June 5th offers several reasons to celebrate for all those living in
Denmark. Not only is today Father’s Day for Danish dads, it’s also
Denmark’s National Day. Grundlovsdag—literally “basic law day”—is a
national holiday celebrating the monarchy’s agreement to share power
with the people.
On this date in 1849, King Frederik 7 signed the Danish Constitution which
marked the start of a democracy for Denmark. On the same day in 1953 the
southernmost Scandinavian nation ratified an updated version of its
Constitution.
Most businesses close early on this day, making way for outdoor celebrations
and family picnics. This would be a good time to enjoy an open-
faced smørrebrød sandwich on rye bread paired with a cold Hyldeblomstsaft.
Today’s Doodle features the fluttering flag of Denmark, with its white Nordic
cross shifted to the left in a field of red—the same flag used by kings and
seafaring vessels since the 14th century.
Glædelig Grundlovsdag, Denmark!
Capital Region of Denmark

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Not to be confused with The Capital Region (Denmark).
Capital Region of Denmark
Region Hovedstaden
Region of Denmark
Flag
Country Denmark
Largest city Copenhagen
Capital Hillerød
Municipalities 29[show]
Government
• Chairman Sophie Hæstorp Andersen(Social

Democrats)
Area
• Total 2,568.29 km2 (991.62 sq mi)
Population
(1 October 2018)[1]
• Total 1,835,537
• Density 710/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
GDP(nominal)[2] 2015
- Total €110 billion ($132 billion)
- Per capita €61,600 ($74,000)
HDI (2017) 0.952[3]

very high · 1st
Website www.regionhovedstaden.dk
The Capital Region of Denmark (Danish: Region Hovedstaden) is the easternmost administrative
region of Denmark, established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform,
which abolished the traditional counties (Danish plural: amter, singular: amt) and set up five regions.
At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of
municipalities from 271 before 1 January 2006, when Ærø Municipality was created, to 98. The
Capital Region has 29 municipalities. The reform was implemented on January 1, 2007. The main
task for the Danish regions are hospitals and healthcare. It is not to be confused with
the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area nor with the Øresund Region. Unlike the counties (1970-2006)
(Danish amtskommune literally county municipality) the regions are not municipalities and are thus
not allowed to have coat of arms, but only logotypes, and cannot "shuffle money around" from one
area of expenditure to another area of expenditure, that is, use money for any other purpose than
has been stated specifically, but must pay money not used back rather like departments or agencies
of the central government. The regions do not levy any taxes but are financed only through block
grants.
For population growth, see Regions of Denmark.
For information about the reform, see Municipalities of Denmark.
Municipalities of the regions can be accessed from the Municipalities of Denmark template at the
bottom of the page.
Contents
 1Overview
 2Hospitals
 3Municipalities of Region Hovedstaden
 4See also
 5References
 6External links
Overview[edit]
The Capital Region of Denmark is one of five regions in Denmark and consists of the municipalities
of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, the former counties of Copenhagen and Frederiksborg, and the
regional municipality of Bornholm. In Danish the name is Region Hovedstaden.
Denmark's largest lake (Danish sø), Arresø, lies 43 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Copenhagen.
There are several other lakes, the deepest in Denmark being Furesø, 14.5 km (9 miles) northwest of
Copenhagen, which is the namesake of Furesø Municipality. Among several forests the region also
has Gribskov[4], namesake of Gribskov Municipality. The forest park Dyrehaven is just north of
Copenhagen (and east of Furesø) in Gentofte and Lyngby-Taarbæk.
Geologically the region lies in the northern part of Denmark which is rising because of post-glacial
rebound, making lakes out of former inlets and bays, of which Arresø is one example, having
extended in a northwesterly direction as a part of Brødemose Sundinto Kattegat.[5](The land is rising
the most in the world (9 millimeters every year) in Furuögrund (Swedish Wikipedia Furuögrund), the
northeastern part of Skellefteå Municipality, north of Kvarken.) Because of the mobility of the sand
dunes, forests have been planted along the coast of Kattegat in the municipalities
of Helsingør, Gribskov, and Halsnæs.
Without the remote island municipality Bornholm, located 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Copenhagen
and 135 km (84 mi) directly east of Vordingborg Municipality (Møn) (across the Baltic Sea), and
regarding only the land area of the 28 municipalities in and around Copenhagen, between 1,800 and
1,850 sq km (between 700 and 715 sq. mi.), 1,000 inhabitants per sq km will be reached in 2018 or
2019 with a population as of 1 October 2018 at 1,795,962 persons, and 39,575 persons living on
Bornholm.
For the purpose of the road and rail connection to Øresund Bridge land has been added to Amager,
which has a tunnel connecting it with the artificial island Peberholm just south of Saltholm. The land
area of east Denmark is approximately 9,622 sq km (year?) (3,715 sq mi), possibly slightly more with
new land added because of housing projects in the north of Copenhagen Municipality and the bridge
and tunnels including the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link and other traffic infrastructure projects. A
new Copenhagen-Ringsted Line is being built to increase transport capacity and relieve congestion
in Roskilde and the narrow 9-9.5 mile isthmus between Roskilde Fjord and Køge Bugt by moving
international and national train traffic to the new train line and only keeping local and regional traffic.
Before 2007, a Danish Capital Region (Danish: Hovedstadsregionen) did exist, but it did not cover
exactly the same area and did not have the same legal functions.
The primary function and largest expenditure, around 90% of the budget, of the Capital Region, as
with all the regions of Denmark, is to own and operate the hospital and health service of the region.
In the east of Denmark there is one traffic region covered by Movia, which is owned by the Capital
Region of Denmark and Region Zealand and 45 of the 46 municipalities. Because of its remote
location Bornholm has its own traffic company, BAT, formerly, when Bornholm was a
county, Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab.
Likewise, in the east of Denmark the two regions and 45 of the 46 municipalities make up one
employment region, and Bornholm is its own employment region. Bornholm also performs other
tasks normally performed by the regions in the rest of Denmark. The municipality of Bornholm is
therefore called Bornholm Regional Municipality. In some respects the island forms a region of its
own.
As Denmark is a unitary state, its "capital region" is not a capital district, but merely one among
several regions of Denmark, that happens to contain the national capital.
The region does not include the Ertholmene archipelago which is situated to the northeast of
Bornholm.
Hospitals[edit]
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
The following hospitals are managed by the Capital Region of Denmark:
 Amager Hospital on the island of Amager, Copenhagen

 Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen
 Bornholms Hospital on the island of Bornholm
 Frederiksberg Hospital in Frederiksberg
 Gentofte Hospital in Gentofte
 Glostrup Hospital in Glostrup
 Herlev Hospital in Herlev
 Hvidovre Hospital in Hvidovre
 Nordsjællands Hospital in Esbønderup, Frederikssund, Hillerød, Elsinore, and Hørsholm
 Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri – psychiatric hospital with many centers around the region
 Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen
 Sct. Hans Hospital in Roskilde
Municipalities of Region Hovedstaden[edit]

There are 29 municipalities in the Capital Region of Denmark.
 Copenhagen
 Frederiksberg
 Albertslund
 Allerød
 Ballerup
 Bornholm
 Brøndby
 Dragør
 Egedal
 Fredensborg
 Frederikssund
 Furesø
 Gentofte
 Gladsaxe
 Glostrup
 Greve
 Gribskov
 Halsnæs
 Herlev
 Hillerød
 Hørsholm
 Høje-Taastrup
 Hvidovre
 Ishøj
 Lyngby-Taarbæk
 Rudersdal
 Rødovre
 Tårnby
 Vallensbæk
Regions of Denmark
Midtjylland-yellow green
Nordjylland-blue
Syddanmark-brown
Hovedstaden-red
Sjælland-green
The five Regions of Denmark were created as administrative entities at a level above the
municipalities and below the central government in the public sector as part of the 2007 Danish
Municipal Reform, when the 13 counties (amter) were abolished. At the same time, the number of
municipalities (kommuner) was cut from 270 to 98.
Each region is governed by a popularly elected regional council with 41 members, from whom the
regional chairman is chosen.
The main responsibility of the regions is healthcare. Lesser powers of the regions include public
transport, environmental planning, soil pollution management and some coordination of secondary
education.
In contrast to the former counties (1970 - 2006), the regions do not have municipal powers. Regions
cannot levy taxes, but are financed partly by block grants from a tax levied by the central
government until 2018 (sundhedsafgift, i.e. health tax) and partly by taxes collected by their
constituent municipalities. Regions cannot decide their budgets independently, but must use the
block grant for the purposes that are specified by the state. Regions do not have a coat of arms, but
modern logos.
The small archipelago of Ertholmene to the northeast of Bornholm is not part of any region or
municipality. Its inhabitants do not pay the regional health care contribution tax or municipal taxes,
nor did they pay the tax levied by counties prior to 2007.
The representative organisation Danske Regioner was set up on 23 March 2006. It is an advocacy
and lobbying organisation speaking on behalf of all of the regions, including negotiating labour
contracts, etc. The organization also maintains an office in Brussels. As a central representation of
the Danish healthcare system it has rather large, although unofficial, powers. Its equivalent before
2006 was Amtsrådsforeningen, the organisation of county representations.
Contents
 1List of regions
o 1.1Names in English
o 1.2Population growth
 2Functions
o 2.1Healthcare reforms and centralization
 3Administration and politics
 4History
o 4.1Earlier mergers
o 4.2Transitional process
o 4.3Political background
 5Regional State Administrations
o 5.1Proposed abolishment
o 5.2Ecclesiastical tasks
o 5.3History
 6See also
 7References
 8External links
List of regions[edit]
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Capital Counties:Copenhagen,
Region e
Region Hillerød (C Frederiksborg;
Hovedstaden (" Hæsto 1,822,6 2,54
of openhage 715.8 municipalities: Copenh
Capital rp 59 6.3 agen,Frederiksberg, Bo
Denma n)
Region") Ander rnholm
rk[1]
sen
Central
Region Ander Ringkjøbing, nearly all
Denma
Midtjylland (" Viborg (Aa s 1,313,5 13,0 101.0 of Århus, the southern
rk
Mid Jutland Re rhus) Kühna 96 00.2 4 part of Viborg and the
Region[ northern part of Vejle
gion") 2]
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North North Jutland, the

Region
Denma Ulla northern part
Nordjylland ("N 589,14 7,87
rk Aalborg Astma 74.82 of Viborg County and a
orth Jutland 8 4 small part of Århus
Region[ n
Region") 3] County
Po
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Seat of p.
Self- ot
admini Pop de
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name n on2 ty
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(literal (largest (201 (p
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nt) m²
²)
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Region Region Heino

Sorø (Rosk 835,02 7,21 115.6 Roskilde, Storstrøm,
Sjælland ("Regi Zealan Knuds
ilde) 4 7.8 8 and West Zealand
on Zealand") d[4] en
Region
Region
of Funen, Ribe, South
Syddanmark (" Steph
Southe Vejle (Ode 1,220,7 12,1 100.1 Jutland and the
Region of anie
rn nse) 63 91 3 southern half of Vejle
Southern Lose County
Denma
Denmark")
rk[5]
Danmark (Den Copenhag 5,781,1 42,8 134.7 (Counties of

N/A N/A
mark) en 90 94.8 7 Denmark)
1
The regions themselves use English names that are not necessarily a verbatim rendering of the
Danish name.
2 Area and population figures do not add up. Land area: 42,394 km². Inland water area: 500 to 700
km². Ertholmene included in totals. Statistikbanken.dk/FOLK1A.

Names in English[edit]
Like their geographical areas, the names of several regions are neologisms. The
term Syddanmark (Southern Denmark) was known before the reform, but not in the present
meaning. It was sometimes used to refer to Denmark proper as opposed to the North Atlantic parts
of the Danish realm, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The term Midtjylland was, and in common
use still is, used to describe the interior centre of Jutland, but never the coastal areas of the
peninsula (West Jutland and East Jutland).
The Regions of North Jutland and Central Jutland have chosen to market themselves internationally
under the names of North Denmark Region and Central Denmark Region, respectively, although in
Denmark these geographical terms have no traditional use and may be confusing.
The government most often uses the Danish names in English-language publications[6] or directly
translated English names (e.g. Greater Copenhagen, Zealand, North Jutland, Southern Denmark,
Central Jutland).[7]
Strictly speaking, there is no authority defining the correct English names since the official names
are stipulated in a law existing only in a Danish version.
Population growth[edit]
Total population and population growth of regions
Region Region Region Region Region

Y Hovedstaden Sjælland Syddanmark Midtjylland Nordjylland
e
a Pop Gr Pop Gr Pop Gr Pop Gr Pop Gr
r ulati ow ulati ow ulati ow ulati ow ulati ow
on th on th on th on th on th
200 1,633,5 811,51 1,185,8 1,219,7 576,80

3,184 4,607 3,966 7,703 165
6 65 1 51 25 7
200 1,636,7 816,11 1,189,8 1,227,4 576,97

9,076 3,309 4,842 9,613 1,867
7 49 8 17 28 2
200 1,645,8 16,46 819,42 1,194,6 1,237,0 10,69 578,83

1,825 5,008 1,676
8 25 0 7 59 41 1 9
200 1,662,2 17,98 821,25 1,199,6 1,247,7 580,51

−688 610 6,266 −887
9 85 6 2 67 32 5

e
201 1,680,2 19,11 820,56 1,200,2 1,253,9 579,62

−801 379 6,995 201
0 71 6 4 77 98 8
201 1,699,3 15,20 819,76 −1,85 1,200,6 1,260,9 579,82

686 5,689 167
1 87 2 3 6 56 93 9
201 1,714,5 17,47 817,90 −1,54 1,201,3 1,266,6 579,99

77 5,828 276
2 89 9 7 8 42 82 6
201 1,732,0 17,33 816,35 1,201,4 1,272,5 580,27

367 1,090 5,028 785
3 68 7 9 19 10 2
201 1,749,4 18,72 816,72 1,202,5 1,277,5 581,05

3,754 3,219 5,212 1,575
4 05 0 6 09 38 7
201 1,768,1 21,04 820,48 1,205,7 1,282,7 10,55 582,63

7,019 6,042 2,867
5 25 9 0 28 50 9 2
201 1,789,1 18,23 827,49 5,054 1,211,7 5,454 1,293,3 10,94 585,49 1,836

e
6 74 0 9 70 09 4 9
201 1,807,4 15,25 832,55 1,217,2 1,304,2 587,33

2,471 3,539 9,343 1,813
7 04 5 3 24 53 5
201 1,822,6 835,02 1,220,7 1,313,5 589,14

8 59 4 63 96 8
Note: Numbers for the year 2006 are pro forma to be a reference, an example, to compare
(neighboring) regions and changes in population numbers when the economy was expanding,
growing, as opposed to when it was contracting.[8]
Functions[edit]
 Health sector, including hospitals, psychiatry and health insurance, general practitioners and
specialists.
 Health insurance for basic dental care.
 Regional development concerning nature and the environment, private sector economy, tourism,
employment, education, and culture, outlying areas and rural area development. Administrative
assistance for private sector growth fora.
 Ground pollution surveillance and cleanup.
 Raw material mapping and planning. Permission for extraction, i.e. gravel pits.
 Social and educational institutions for people with special needs.
 Public transportation.
The most important area of responsibility for the new regions is the public health service, accounting
for 90% of the regions' expenditure. They are also responsible for employment policies and public
mass transit (buses and a few local railways). However, in eastern Denmark (Region Zealand and
the Capital Region) the regions and 45 out of 46 municipalities share one employment region and
transit is handled by a single transport agency, Movia.
Bornholm Regional Municipality because of its remote location in the Baltic
Sea between Sweden and the westernmost part of Poland is its own employment region and is a
100% owner of its own mass transit agency, BAT, which was Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab until the
island's county was abolished on 1 January 2003. Bornholm also performs other tasks that are
normally carried out by the regions in the rest of Denmark - thus the name
Bornholm Regional Municipality: Bornholm in some respects forms a region by itself. From 1
January 2018 Fanø Municipality will be the sole provider of public mass transit on the island
of Fanø taking over the responsibilities from the Region of Southern Denmark.
Healthcare reforms and centralization[edit]
The regions own all public hospitals in their areas and also control the primary care sector through
contracts with general physicians (family doctors) and specialists. The name of the region is often
used on hospitals' letterheads and on doctors' and nurses' white coats.
Four of the regions have a university hospital, corresponding with the four medical faculties of
Denmark. The Region of Zealand lacks a medical faculty but has in 2016 renamed its hospitals in
Roskilde and Køge, close to Copenhagen, as university hospitals and will collaborate with the
medical faculty of the University of Copenhagen.[9] The administrative reform of 2006 was in many
respects also a centralisation of the healthcare system. While the former counties controlled
hospitals relatively independently, healthcare policy is now decided by the government, while
regions administer it. Some local hospitals have been closed or downgraded. New, large and highly
specialised hospitals have been built including Aarhus University Hospital and Psychiatric Hospital
Slagelse. Projects during or awaiting construction are the new Aalborg University Hospital, Odense
University Hospital, North Zealand Hospital at Hillerød serving the northern Copenhagen area, the
regional Gødstrup Hospital and Aabenraa Hospital, and large extensions of the Zealand University
Hospitalin Køge, Herlev Hospital, Bispebjerg Hospital and Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and the
regional South Jutland Hospital in Sønderborg.
The projects, in Denmark known as 'super hospitals' (da:Supersygehus), were intended to increase
the quality of care and reduce costs, but have almost uniformally experienced large-scale planning
problems including breach of budgets, delays, interior climate problems, unsatisfactory design and
last-minute cost cuts such as removing kitchens, decreasing the bed capacity or removing amenities
for patients. As a result of the centralisation, Denmark will decrease its hospitals with emergency
care from 40 in 2007 to 21 in 2020. The changes have been criticised by residents in areas far from
emergency hospitals. To compensate, some of the regions offer paramedic helicopter response in
addition to ambulances. In addition, since 1999 the government has obliged Danish hospitals to
increase their productivity by 2% per year for the same budget, in the expectation of possible
benefits from technical progress, but often leading to cutbacks in services. A growth in bureaucracy
has generally been observed by doctors and employees.[10] In the Capital Region and Zealand
Region, a new electronic health record system developed by Epic Systems has been described as a
major scandal, causing unresponsive IT systems, wrong prescriptions, more time-consumption and
a lack of overview. Doctors and other employees have demanded the withdrawal of the system, but
the regions insist that it will remain in place and errors be corrected.[11]
Regions are responsible for providing primary care to all citizens. This is carried out through
contracts with general practitioners who own their clinics and provide treatment free-of-charge for
the public, according to specifications laid down by the region. According to doctors, the burden of
documentation and administration has increased, and the amount of young doctors wishing a career
as general practitioners has diminished. Since many areas have been affected by physician
shortage, the regions have been compelled to open region-owned clinics to fill the gaps.
Administration and politics[edit]
Regions are led by directly elected councils (regionsråd), which each consist of 41 members. The
head of the council is the regional council chairman (regionsrådsformand), who is elected by the
council from its members.[12] Elections are held simultaneously with municipal elections every four
years. The latest Danish local elections were held on 21 November 2017.
Unlike the former counties, regions are not entitled to levy their own taxes, but rely on central state
funding (around 70%) and funding from the municipalities (around 30%). A central government
"health contribution" tax (sundhedsbidrag) on income which was 8% when it was introduced from
2007 has replaced most of the county tax (amtsskat). With income taxes in the lowest bracket being
raised 1 percentage point a year, the health contribution tax will be eliminated by 2019. In 2012 this
tax was lowered to 7%, 2013 6%, 2014 5%, 2015 4%, 2016 3%, 2017 2%, 2018 1%. This follows an
agreement on taxes by the Folketing from 2009.
90% of the budgets of the regions is allocated to the national health service. Health has remained
the main issue in regional politics, especially because major changes to Denmark's hospital layout
were announced immediately after the municipal reform.
History[edit]
Earlier mergers[edit]
After the 1970 reform, in 1974 Sengeløse Municipality was absorbed by Høje-Taastrup, reducing the
municipalities from 275 to 274. Countrywide, many local mergers were proposed through the years,
but none took place until 2003.
The five municipalities of Bornholm merged on 1 Jan 2003 to form Bornholm Regional Municipality,
the name indicating that it had also absorbed the powers of the former Bornholm County. This
reduced the amount of counties from 14 to 13. On 1 January 2007 it became part of the Capital
Region, but retained its unique name of Regional Municipality since it has been allocated some
regional powers due to its isolated location. These include regional development, pollution control
and public transport, but healthcare is in the hands of the Capital Region.
Ærø Municipality was allowed to be formed already 1 January 2006 from the island's former two
municipalities of Ærøskøbing and Marstal.
Transitional process[edit]
The reform implied deep changes of the whole Danish public sector. It took effect from 1 January
2007, but was prepared from 2005. In the local elections of 15 November 2005, municipal councils
for the upcoming 98 municipalities and 5 regions were elected. These councils were officially
merging committees (sammenlægningsudvalg) from 1 Jan 2006 through 31 Dec 2006. During that
year, there task was solely that of preparing the mergers. On 1 Jan 2007 these elected committees
were renamed municipal councils and now ruling the new municipalities, without new elections
taking place.
The councils of the older, smaller municipalities, as well as the old municipalities themselves, were
in force until the end of 2006. They were elected in November 2001 and would normally have been
in power for a 4-year period, from 1 Jan 2002 until 31 Dec 2005, but their mandate was simply
prolonged by one year.
The equivalent name for the upcoming regional councils were preparatory boards
(forberedelsesudvalg) and these were likewise elected on 15 Nov 2005. The county councils of the
old counties had their mandate prolonged by a year and existed parallel to the preparatory boards
during 2006.
32 municipalities, most notably Copenhagen, many of its surrounding municipalities and some
islands, were not affected by municipal mergers in the reform. In these municipalities, the normal
four year election periods were observed. After the November 2005 local elections, the mandate of
their new councils was valid from 1 Jan 2006 through 31 Dec 2009.
After the transitions, the next local elections took place on 17 Nov 2009. A few local political
parties have emerged as a protest against closing of hospitals or cutbacks in healthcare, most
notably Fælleslisten which got over 40 percent of votes in the Holstebro area in the 2009 election,
and the Psychiatry List in the 2017 election, both in the Central Jutland Region.
Political background[edit]
The reform has been called the biggest reform in thirty years. It was an important
policy issue for the former Liberal-Conservative cabinet, most importantly for Lars
Løkke Rasmussen, then minister of the Interior and Health and formerly a county
mayor.
The abolition of the counties had long been an important goal for both
the Conservatives and the Danish People's Party. 24 June 2004 the Danish
People's Party decided to back the government's proposal for a structural reform
of the public sector, thus securing a majority in the Danish parliament (Folketing),
although the party had preferred just abolishing the counties without replacing
them with a new administrative level between the central government and the
municipalities. The parties who wanted to limit the regional tier of government
prevailed insofar as the regions have no authority to levy taxes, and are not
municipalities unlike the former counties (1970 - 2006) (Danish amtskommune,
literally county municipality), and therefore cannot move budgets from one area
of expenditure to another but must pay back any money not used, rather like
departments or agencies of the central government.
Regional State Administrations[edit]

The regions are distinct from the state administration
offices (Danish: statsforvaltning(en), plural: statsforvaltninger). The regions are
responsible for devolved tasks within healthcare and regional planning and
governed by an elected council. The State Administrations are not subordinate to
the Regions, but regional governmental offices under the Ministry for Children
and Social Affairs.
The state administrations handle matters within family law, including child
custody and child contact, divorce, paternity and child support cases, often with a
high degree of conflict when parents disagree. They also handle matters such as
name change, artificial fertilisation, citizenship, right of residence for EU citizens,
guardianship for adults, and act as a complaints authority for municipal decisions
in building matters.
Initially after the reform, effective from 1 Jan 2007, there were five state
administrations, covering the same areas as the five regions. They were subject
to the Ministry of the Interior and Health. They also acted as a complaints board
for a wider range of decisions taken by municipalities, including social law. The
civil servants leading each of the five state administrations had the title of state
administration director.
From 2013, the State Administration is now organised with one central office
in Åbenrå and eight regional representations. It is now managed by one central
State Administration director and several subordinate vice directors.
Proposed abolishment[edit]
While not a court, the State Administration handles over 100,000 family law
cases per year. In media reports, the entity has been criticized for bureaucratic
handling of cases and negligence of the best interest of children. Organizations
of single fathers have claimed that case officers are biased and will often take
sides for the mother, for example when unproven accusations of incest or abuse
are made.
A 2017 government plan proposes to abolish the State Administration and
replace it with a new entity, the Family Law House (Familieretshuset).[13]
Ecclesiastical tasks[edit]
One of the tasks of the State Administration is the technical and economic
supervision of the dioceses within the Church of Denmark, along with the
bishops. In this function they bear the title of stiftamtmand (literally: diocesan
governor). While each of the five regional state administration directors were
simultaneously diocesan governors, the task is now carried out by several vice
directors who carry the additional title of diocesan governors. Peculiarly, since
the task is purely administrative and representing the government under
the Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs, the person does not need to be a member
of the Church of Denmark. In 2011, Niels Preisler, a Roman Catholic, was
appointed director of the Copenhagen state administration and therefore
diocesan governor of Copenhagen.[14]
History[edit]
Henrik Frederik von Söhlenthal, a Danish county prefect in the 18th century
Administrative map of the Kingdom of Denmark in 1945 (without Greenland and the Faroe
Islands)
The predecessor of the state administration(s), before the 2007 reform, were the
14 county government divisions or prefectures (Danish: statsamt,
plural: statsamter, i.e. 'state county'). They were each led by an amtmand (county
prefect or governor) appointed by the government, while in ecclestiastical
contexts the title stiftamtmand ('diocesan prefect') was used for the same
position. These units were distinct from the 14 counties led by an elected council,
but covered the same areas. Copenhagen, however, had the equivalent entity of
Upper Presidium (Københavns overpræsidium) led by an upper president
(overpræsident), a title originating from 1747. The municipality of Frederiksberg
shared its county governor and county government division with Copenhagen
County (not covering Copenhagen proper, but the surrounding area). Bornholm
retained its county government office and governor even after losing its county
status (2003-2006).
While prefect or governor is an English rendering of the title, county prefects
were practically senior government officials, unknown to a larger public and less
powerful than governors in many other countries. On the Faroe Islands and
Greenland, after autonomy, the equivalent representative of the Danish
government is the High Commissioner, (rigsombudsmand, formerly amtmand,
which was often translated as governor).
The general public is mostly familiar with the former statsamt and
present statsadministration as the entity dealing with divorce and child custody.
The position of county prefect dated back to the age of absolutism. After elected
councils were introduced, the King-appointed county prefect still led the elected
county council and had larger political influence. In 1970, his political role was
then taken over by the county mayor (amtsborgmester) who was one of the
elected county council members. The county prefect remained as the highest
government representative in each county, and in his traditional civil servant
uniform would be the person to receive the Queen on her visits throughout the
country. In Copenhagen Municipality, the switch was made in 1938 when the title
of Lord Mayor of Copenhagen (Københavns overborgmester, literally 'upper
mayor of Copenhagen') was created for the elected leader of the city council. The
equivalent of the Danish county prefect is the Swedish landshövding and the
Norwegian fylkesmann.
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10 Foods You Should Try When You Visit Denmark

10. Jul. 2015
Joy Smith
Every country has its special cuisine. Denmark is no different. From

appetizers to desserts, you can find a choice of delicious foods and
specialties. Most people know about Danish butter cookies
(småkager), and liquorice (lakrids), but what about other meals and
goodies? How much do you know about the foods Danes love? Here
are 10 different foods you should try when you visit.
1. Nordic Cooking
Denmark enjoys the distinction of having the most Michelin starred restaurants in
Scandinavia - 21 in total. Remember to book months in advance for a table.
Other restaurants have followed in their example and adopted the Nordic cooking
trend.
2. Open Face Sandwiches
Open face sandwiches - truly a Danish treat – are pieces of buttered rye bread
garnished/decorated with slices of boiled eggs, various meats, fish, and
vegetables.
3. Hot Dogs/Sausages
Hot dog vans known as pølsevogne can be found anywhere in Denmark. They
attract a steady flow of Danes and foreigners. An organic hotdog stand located
near the Round Tower (Rundetårn), sells various organic meat and vegetable hot
dogs. They are served with bread, or healthy mashed roots (rodfrugtmos).
Medister sausage (medisterpølse) - pig intestines stuffed with pork and spices -
is another type of sausage sold in Danish supermarkets and eaten by locals with
brown sauce and beetroot.
4. Denmark’s National Dish
While there are many meat dishes, fried pork with parsley sauce and potatoes
(stegt flæsk med persillesovs og kartoffler), is Denmark’s national dish. Pieces of
pork meat seasoned with salt and pepper are fried until crisp, then served with
potatoes and parsley sauce.
5. Herring
Herring is sold smoked, curried, marinated, or as Sol Over Gudhjem, a favourite

especially on the Danish island of Bornholm. Sol over Gudhjem, translated as
‘sun over Gudhjem’ - a town on Bornholm - is a buttered piece of rye bread
topped with herring, red onions, and an egg yolk. Other fish such as salmon,
plaice, and cod are eaten with dressings such as parsley sauce and potatoes.
6. Rye Bread
Rye bread or rugbrød, is the traditional Danish bread. It is used when making
the famous open sandwiches, and is eaten mostly for lunch with any chosen
topping. Rugbrød is made from rye flour, various seeds and sourdough, and is
the healthy choice over white bread.
7. Asparagus
Not that the Danes don’t like other vegetables, but white and green asparagus
are grown and loved in Denmark. The asparagus season lasts only three
weeks. Tivoli, the Amusement Park, even has an asparagus menu. During the
summer months, Danes blanch their asparagus and serve them with butter and
salt, bake them in the oven with other vegetables, wrap them in bacon and grill
them, eat them with white sauce and shrimps, or use them as an addition to their
main course.
8. Frikadeller
A frikadeller is a fried meatball made from fish, pork, or a blend of pork and beef,
and is eaten with potatoes and parsley sauce. Fish frikadeller is usually eaten
cold with remoulade and/or fried onions.
9. Layer Cakes and Other Desserts
Danes make a variety of desserts. Layer cakes, made with layers of sponge
cake and cream, and/or fruits between each layer, and topped with fruits,
chocolate and/or marzipan is absolutely delicious.
Denmark’s many layered pastries, wienerbrød, can be purchased at
supermarkets, cafes, and pastry shops.
Another popular dessert, known as rødgrød med fløde, is easy to make. Heat
some red berries with a little sugar and vanilla, and slightly thicken the sauce with
a bit of cornstarch. Serve with cream. Yum!
I would never be forgiven by a Dane if I forget to mention chocolate covered egg
whites, known as flødeboller, and liquorice, called lakrids in Danish. Liquorice
can be sweet and strong, or hot and salty. It does crazy things to your taste buds
and if you are not careful, it could grow on you...
10. Koldskål with Biscuits
Danes enjoy Koldskål. Frida who works for Danhostel reminisces, “When I visit
my grandmother at the start of summer, I sit outside and enjoy koldskål , and the
smell of freshly cut grass. Koldskål reminds me of summer.” Koldskål is a thick,
sweetened dairy product with or without lemon flavour. It is eaten with biscuits,
and strawberries are almost always added.
These are just a few examples of what you can eat when you come to Denmark.
There are, of course, many other cuisines available which might tickle your fancy;
however, you will understand the Danes much better when you eat with them,
and learn a few Danish phrases and words such as ‘tak for mad,’ 'det var dejligt,'
‘hygge,’ and ‘velbekommen.’
Danish cuisine

Frikadeller (meat balls) with rugbrød(rye bread) and pickled gherkins
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Danish cuisine (Danish: det danske køkken) originated from the peasant population's own local
produce and was enhanced by cooking techniques developed in the late 19th century and the wider
availability of goods during and after the Industrial Revolution. Open sandwiches, known
as smørrebrød, which in their basic form are the usual fare for lunch, can be considered a national
speciality when prepared and decorated with a variety of fine ingredients. Hot meals are typically
prepared with meat or fish. Substantial meat and fish dishes includes flæskesteg (roast pork with
crackling) and kogt torsk (poached cod) with mustard sauce and trimmings. Ground meats (pork,
veal or beef) became widespread during the industrial revolution and traditional dishes that are still
popular includes frikadeller (meat balls), karbonader (breaded pork patties) and medisterpølse (fried
sausage). Denmark is known for its Carlsberg and Tuborg beers and for its akvavit and bitters, but
amongst the Danes themselves imported wine has gained steadily in popularity since the 1960s.[1][2]
Cooking in Denmark has always been inspired by foreign and continental practises and the use of
imported tropical spices like cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg and black pepper can be traced to the
Danish cuisine of the Middle Ages and some even to the Vikings.[3][4]
Since the early 2000s, some Danish chefs have developed the new Danish cuisine, an innovative
way of cooking based on high-quality local produce. This new philosophy and cuisine has attracted
the attention of and been celebrated by the international gourmet community. It has contributed with
a considerable number of highly acclaimed restaurants in Copenhagen and the province, with some
of them awarded Michelin stars.
Contents
 1History
o 1.1New Danish cuisine
 2Main meals
o 2.1Breakfast
o 2.2Lunch
o 2.3Dinner
 3Open sandwiches
 4Cold buffet
 5Options for dinner
o 5.1Appetiser
o 5.2Soups
o 5.3Main dishes
 5.3.1Traditional main course dishes
o 5.4Desserts
o 5.5Cakes
 6Traditional feasts
o 6.1Christmas
 6.1.1Christmas lunch
 6.1.2Christmas dinner at home
o 6.2Easter
 6.2.1Holy Saturday lunch
 6.2.2Easter Sunday lunch
 7Eating out
o 7.1Restaurants
o 7.2Cafés
o 7.3Street food
 7.3.1Hot dog vans
 7.3.2Social dining
 8Other popular foods
o 8.1Potatoes
o 8.2Vegetables and salads
o 8.3Sauces and condiments
o 8.4Cheese
o 8.5Seasonings and herbs
o 8.6Fruit
o 8.7Baked goods
 8.7.1Cakes
o 8.8Sweets
 9Drinks
 10Criticism
 11Frøken Jensens Kogebog
 12See also
 13Literature
 14References
 15Bibliography
 16External links
History[edit]
A loaf of Danish rye bread (rugbrød)

Danish cooking is rooted in the peasant dishes served across the country before the Industrial
Revolution in 1860. It was based on the need to make use of natural products available on or near
the family farm. As a result, a variety of brassicas, bread, fish, pork and later potatoes, were eaten
everywhere. Families had their own storage of long-lasting dry products, rye for making bread,
barley for beer, dried peas for soup and smoked or salted pork.[5] The industrialization brought an
increase in the consumption of fresh meat and vegetables, but rye bread and potatoes continued to
be staples.[6] With the arrival of dairy cooperatives in the second half of the 19th century, milk also
gained favor, although all kinds of dairy products have been consumed in lesser quantities for
millennia. The introduction of wood-burning stoves and meat grinders contributed to a range of new
dishes including frikadeller (meat balls), medisterpølse (fried ground meat sausage), hakkebøf (meat
patties of beef), karbonader[7] (breaded pork meat patties), meat loafs, roast pork, poached cod
and stegt rødspætte (breaded flatfish). Desserts of stewed fruits or berries such as rødgrød date
from the same period, as do a large variety of cakes and cookies.[5]
Over the centuries, sausage, which was not only economical but could be kept for long periods, was
together with rye bread behind the development of smørrebrød. By the end of the 18th century, there
were several different kinds of sausage but the preparation of cold meat products developed rapidly
in the 1840s when the French butcher Francois Louis Beauvais opened a business in Copenhagen.
In the 1880s, Oskar Davidsen opened a restaurant specializing in smørrebrød with a long list of
open sandwiches. Leverpostej (liver pâté) became available in grocery shops at the end of the 19th
century but it was some time before its price was comparable with that of cold cuts. Around the
same time, the one-hour lunch break which had allowed people to enjoy a hot midday meal was
shortened to 30 minutes, encouraging them to take a few pieces of smørrebrød to work in a lunch
box. In the 1920s and 1930s, tomatoes and cucumbers were added as a topping to the cold cuts. In
the 1940s, Henry Stryhn popularized leverpostej by making deliveries around Copenhagen on his
bicycle.[8]
In the 1960s and 1970s, with the availability of deep frozen goods, the concept of fast food arrived
together with an interest in Mediterranean dishes as Danes travelled more widely. By the 1990s,
ingredients were being imported from the south while new products were farmed at home, providing
a basis for a developing interest in gourmet dishes. Much of the inspiration came from France, as
Danish chefs went on television explaining how to prepare dishes such as canard à l'orange or
authentic sauce Béarnaise. A younger generation of chefs soon started to travel abroad themselves,
learning how to adapt the expertise of French and Spanish chefs to the use of local ingredients as a
basis for creating beautifully presented, finely flavoured Nordic dishes. As a result, in recent years
Danish chefs have helped to put Denmark on the world gastronomic map, with several Michelin-
starred restaurants in Copenhagen and the provinces.[6]
New Danish cuisine[edit]
Main article: New Danish cuisine
New Nordic dish made from local ingredients exclusively. "White asparagus with poached
egg yolk and sauce of woodruff" at Restaurant Noma.
Danish cuisine has also taken advantage of the possibilities inherent in traditional recipes, building
on the use of local products and techniques that have not been fully exploited. Local products such
as rapeseed, oats, cheeses and older varieties of fruits are being rediscovered and prepared in new
ways both by restaurants and at home, as interest in locally sourced organic foods continues to
grow. The Nordic Council's agricultural and food ministers have supported these developments in
the form of a manifesto designed to encourage the use of natural produce from the Nordic countries
in the food production industry, while promoting the "purity, freshness, simplicity and ethics"
associated with the region's cuisine.[9]
In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014 the Copenhagen restaurant Noma (short for nordisk mad – Nordic
food) was named the world's best restaurant by the magazine Restaurant.[10]
In 2012, Danish chef and food activist Claus Meyer had his own show about Nordic cuisine on BBC
Lifestyle.[11] His recent book Almanakcontains 365 new cuisine recipes, one for each day of the
year.[12]
Main meals[edit]
Most Danes have three regular meals a day, usually consisting of a cold breakfast with coffee or tea,
a cold lunch at work and a hot dinner at home with the family. Some also have a snack in the middle
of the afternoon or in the late evening. Meat, especially pork, is by far the most common ingredient
of hot meals. It is usually accompanied by potatoes and sometimes by another vegetable such as
carrots or lettuce. Most hot meals consist of only one course: starters are fairly rare but desserts
such as ice cream or fruit are a little more frequent. Beer and wine are fairly common drinks at
mealtimes but so are soft drinks, plain water and, to a lesser extent, milk and coffee.[13] Many
families follow the old traditions. Mothers and fathers cook together and teach their children how to
cook. Meals form an important part of family life, allowing for socializing and contributing to the
sense of the well-being and coziness known as hygge.[14]
Breakfast[edit]
Bread with cheese and salami, soft-boiled egg and coffee; a typical everyday breakfast.
The basic Danish breakfast consists of coffee, or tea, and rye bread, white bread, or rolls with
cheese or jam. Bread at breakfast time most often comes in the form of a white loaf known
as franskbrød (French bread), a baguette, or a variety of white or brown rolls
(boller, birkes, rundstykker, håndværkere) or croissants.[15] The bread is usually buttered and topped
with soft or creamy cheese, sausage, pâté, cured cold meat or jam. On festive gatherings or when
time permits, as on Sundays, for example, a variety of bread rolls can be included as well
as wienerbrød, as Danish pastry is known in Denmark. Fruit juice, mostly orange or apple, and
sometimes a bitter such as Gammel Dansk, may also be served, especially when breakfast is
served to guests or on special occasions and celebrations like birthdays and anniversaries.[16] In
Danish hotels, soft-boiled eggs and cold meats are usually served for breakfast, too.[17]
On weekdays, various cereals such as corn flakes, muesli or rolled oats are often served for
breakfast with just cold milk and sugar. Soured milk products are popular, too, and are served either
plain or with cereals or fruit. The typical local soured milk product of ymer is topped with ymerdrys, a
mixture of dried grated rye bread and brown sugar. Porridges such as oatmeal and a traditional local
porridge called Øllebrødare also popular on work days. Øllebrød, a thin porridge cooked with bits of
rye bread, hvidtøl, water, and sugar, and served with milk or sometimes whipped cream, is gaining in
popularity as reflected on the breakfast menus of many cafés.[18]
Lunch[edit]
Slices to carry to work/school in a lunchbox are prepared in the morning.

Rather than eating at home, most Danes have a quick lunch at work or school either in the cafeteria,
if there is one, or more often in the form of a packed lunch or madpakke prepared before they leave
home. Lunch is usually a cold meal consisting of a few simply prepared pieces of smørrebrød (often
referred to as håndmad, i.e. hand-food) with slices of cold meat, sliced sausage or hard boiled
egg. Leverpostej, a liver pâté prepared from pig's liver and lard, is also frequently used as a
spread.[19]
Dinner[edit]
For the average family, dinner is the one meal of the day where everyone can be gathered, due to
the pressures of the modern life where both parents are likely to work, and the children are in school
or pre-school institutions. This a great time to talk about the day-to-day life of each family member.
Dinner usually consists of just one main course, often a meat dish with potatoes and a vegetable or
salad. Starters are seldom served at home. If there is a dessert, it is likely to be ice cream or a fruit
dish. Much more substantial, and delicious dinners are served on weekends, special occasions or
when guests have been invited.[20]
Confusingly, the evening meal is sometimes called middag (midday) because hot meals were
formerly served in the middle of the day. The variety of evening meals has developed as a result of
the increasing availability of foods from supermarkets as well as the development and growth of the
local food industry. As a result of American influence, there is now considerable interest in
barbecues, salad buffets and ready-to-serve dishes. Italian-inspired preparations including pizza and
pasta have also become common options. Meat is increasingly popular, pork still remaining the most
frequently served. Cuts are often prepared in the frying pan and accompanied by brown gravy and
potatoes.[20]
Open sandwiches[edit]
Main article: Smørrebrød
"Smørrebrød". Danish open sandwiches are usually made with dark rye bread, but comes
with a large variety of suitable toppings
Smørrebrød (originally smør og brød, meaning "butter and bread") usually consists of a piece of
buttered rye bread (rugbrød), a dense, dark brown bread. Pålæg (meaning put-on, actually "that
which is laid on [the bread]"), the topping, then among others can refer to commercial or homemade
cold cuts, pieces of meat or fish, cheese or spreads. More elaborate, finely decorated varieties have
contributed to the international reputation of the Danish open sandwich or smørrebrød. A slice or two
of pålæg is placed on the buttered bread and decorated with the right accompaniments to create a
tasty and visually appealing food item.[21]
Some traditional compositions include:[22]
 Dyrlægens natmad (Veterinarian's late night snack). On a piece of dark rye bread, a layer of liver
pâté (leverpostej), topped with a slice of saltkød (salted beef) and a slice of sky (meat jelly). This
is all decorated with raw onion rings and garden cress.[23]
 Røget ål med røræg, smoked eel on dark rye bread, topped with scrambled eggs, chives and a
slice of lemon.
 Leverpostej, warm rough-chopped liverpaste served on dark rye bread, topped with bacon, and
sauteed mushrooms. Additions can include lettuce and sliced pickled cucumber.
 Roast beef, thinly sliced and served on dark rye bread, topped with a portion of remoulade, and
decorated with a sprinkling of shredded horseradish and crispy fried onions.
 Ribbensteg, thin slices of roast pork with crackling, served on dark rye bread with rødkål, and
decorated with a slice of orange.
 Rullepølse, spiced meat roll with a slice of meat jelly, onions, tomatoes and parsley. Usually pork
meat, but sometimes lamb.
 Tartar, with salt and pepper, served on dark rye bread, topped with raw onion rings, grated
horseradish and a raw egg yolk.
 Røget laks. Slices of cold-smoked salmon on white bread, topped with shrimp and decorated
with a slice of lemon and fresh dill.
 Stjerneskud (Shooting star). On a base of buttered toast, two pieces of fish: a piece of steamed
white fish (mostly plaice) on one half, a piece of fried, breaded plaice or rødspætteon the other
half. On top is piled a mound of shrimp, which is then decorated with a dollop of mayonnaise,
sliced cucumber, caviar or blackened lumpfish roe, and a lemonslice.[24]
Cold buffet[edit]
"Det Kolde Bord" with beer and snaps.

Det Kolde Bord is a cold buffet served with bread on special occasions. The food is usually brought
to the dining table and passed around family-style and the idea is similar to the Swedish counterpart,
the smörgåsbord, but with slightly different ingredients. Det Kolde Bord is usually served at lunch
time, but may well carry on into the evening.[25]
The meal begins with seafood, usually pickled herring (spegesild), or another herring dish. The
cured and pickled herring fillets are typically made and served in a white and a red variety, but a
multitude of pickled herring dishes exists.[26][27] White herring has marinated in a clear, sweet and
mildly spiced vinegar marinade while the sharper tasting red herring has marinated in a red,
seasoned vinegar marinade, owing their red colour to sandal wood.[28] Other common variations
includes a variety of sour cream-based sauces, of which a curry flavoured type is very
popular. Spegesild is usually served on buttered, black rye bread, topped with onion rings,
pickled capers and a glob of curry salad - a sour-cream based sauce, flavored with curry and
chopped pickles - and chopped hard boiled eggs on the side. Alternative, but common, herring
dishes served at the cold buffet includes stegte sild i eddike (fried herring in vinegar) consisting of
rye-battered, fried fillets of herring in a spiced vinegar marinade or the more
elaborate silderet (herring dish) where the herring is arranged in a large serving dish with various
sides such as warm, boiled potatoes, raw onion, pickled capers and a dill-flavoured sour-cream or
mayonnaise sauce, or diced apple, shredded horseradish and curry salad, as two common
options.[29][25] Other seafood dishes may include:[30]
 Rejer (shrimps), usually served on white bread with mayonnaise and lemon
 Røget ål (smoked eel) with scrambled egg
 Gravad laks (salt-cured salmon) with a dill and mustard sauce
 Rødspættefilet (breaded filets of plaice), served hot with lemon and remoulade
 Røget laks (smoked salmon)
 Røget hellefisk (smoked halibut)
The cold table also consists of a wide variety of meat dishes and, despite its name, nearly always
includes a few items which are served hot. Some of the more common components are:[30]
 Frikadeller (meat balls), sometimes hot

 Leverpostej (liver paste), sometimes hot, with pickled beetroot, mushrooms or fried bacon
 Mørbradbøf (pork tenderloin), hot, with fried onions
 Flæskesteg (roast pork) with crackling, usually with red cabbage
 Medisterpølse (a coarsely ground pork sausage, fried)
 Pariserbøf (ground beef steak), usually served hot on toast with pickles
There might also be cold cuts from hams, roast beef, salami, brisket of beef and spiced roulade. Det
Kolde Bord usually include accompaniments such as potato salad, scrambled egg and a variety of
salads. Desserts like fruit salad and fruit pies, as well as various cheeses may also be
served.[30] Around Christmas, the buffet will sometimes include sylte (meat jelly from pork) and other
Christmas-related specialties.[31]
"Spegesild", cold pickled herring
Shrimps on white bread
Smoked eel and trout with scrambled eggs
Fishcake, smoked herring and prawns with dark rye bread.
"Leverpostej" (hot) served with bacon and pickles


"Pariserbøf" with accompaniments
"Frikadeller" and potato salad
Options for dinner[edit]

The everyday evening meal for most Danes consists of a main course and perhaps a dessert. At
weekends and on special occasions, a more elaborate meal is served. Good restaurants usually
serve a three course dinner. While an ever-wider range of foreign foods are available in Denmark,
traditional dishes are still popular. A selection of the more common options is given below.[22]
Appetiser[edit]
The first course is typically fish or soup, although a wide variety of other appetisers are becoming
more common. Common traditional appetisers include:
 Shellfish, including mussels, shrimp, oyster, crab and lobster. Usually served poached with white
bread and various toppings for an appetiser or small meal.
 Shrimp (rejer) are mostly from the Greenland or the North Atlantic. Fjord shrimp from
Denmark are a seasonal and less common delicacy: very small and flavorful, about the size
of the smallest fingernail. Special shrimp appetisers are shrimp cocktail (rejecocktail), shrimp
salad (with mayonnaise) and shrimp terrine. Apart from appetisers, shrimps also features as
toppings for some fish servings.
 Mussels (muslinger), is fished and farmed on a large scale in Danish waters and is served
poached. Blue mussels is by far the most common, but razor clams, green lipped mussel
and common cockle is sometimes served as well. As with shrimps, mussels may feature in
some fish dishes.
 Oyster is usually served raw, and sometimes smoked, as an appetiser for more lavish
dinners.
 Fish served for appetiser or entrée, includes pickled herring and gravad laks served cold with
bread; rye bread for the herring and white bread for the salmon. There are many kinds of pickled
herring, with a large variety of vinegar marinades and smoked or fried pickled herring is also
served. Fish pâté of various kinds with bread might also be had.
Soups[edit]
"Hønsekødssuppe"
Soup is often a meal on its own and mostly served with bread. It can also be served as
an entrée before the main course. In addition to soups also common outside of Denmark,
specialities include:
 Gule ærter (pea soup), a meal in itself served together with salted pork, carrots and other
vegetables
 Hønsekødssuppe (chicken soup) served with melboller (small flour dumplings), meatballs and
cubed vegetables.
Main dishes[edit]
Fish, seafood and meat are prominent parts of any traditional Danish dish.
With a very long coastline and large number of smaller islands, Denmark has a long tradition of
fishing and seafood takes a natural part of the Danish food tradition.
The most commonly eaten fish and seafood are:[citation needed]
 Cod (torsk), a common white fish in general food preparation (baked, steamed, poached). It is
also dried (klipfisk). Danes are particularly fond of cods roe. The roe are in season in January–
February, but is sold and consumed year round canned.[32][33] Prices on cod have risen in recent
years, making this once-favorite fish drop down the list. It has mainly been replaced by other
white fish, such as haddock and ling.
 Norway lobster (jomfruhummer)
 Herring (sild), features prominently in the traditional Danish cuisine and is served in a large
variety of ways either smoked, fried, pickled, breaded, or charred.[34][35]
"Culottesteg", top sirloin roast. More expensive meat cuts are usually reserved for
weekends or special occasions.
 Plaice (rødspætte), in the form of fried, battered fish filets or as a white fish in general food
preparation (baked, steamed, poached). It is often replaced with the more common European
flounder, known as skrubbe in Danish.
 Eel (ål), is smoked or pan-fried. Smoked eel is almost exalted in some homes.
 Salmon (laks), poached or broiled and served in a variety of ways. Smoked and
gravad lox salmon with bread is reserved for appetisers or smørrebrød.
 Roe (rogn), fish roe from cod is by far the most common, but lumpfish (stenbider) is also served
on occasion. Poached or pan-fried is most typical. Salmon roe is used for toppings of some
seafood dishes.
Fish from Bornholm, Iceland and Greenland also has a special place in the Danish cuisine. The
island of Bornholm, a part of Denmark located in the Baltic Sea, to the east of Zealand and south
of Sweden, is noted for its smoked fish items. Iceland and Greenland have long shared histories with
Denmark, and the fish from these North Atlantic lands is a sign of quality.
Pork is the favourite meat in Denmark and pork meat has been a major export sector for more than
100 years.[36] As regards home cooking and meat, the Danes primarily eat pork (42%), followed by
poultry (28%) and beef (26%). These are 2016 numbers and does not include processed meat and
eating out. Processed meats comprise a lot of pork in Danish cuisine, including hams, smoked pork,
many kinds of cold cuts, sausages and salamis, so the pork consumption percentage would be even
larger if processed meat were included.[37] Ground pork meat is used in many traditional recipes
requiring ground meat. Danish bacon is generally of good quality (exported Danish bacon is of
exceptional quality), and available in both the striped and back varieties.
Beef is also very popular in the modern Danish kitchen. Danish cattle are primarily used for dairy
and Denmark has a centuries-old tradition of dairy products. Hence, cattle bred for their meat were
formerly rare and expensive.[citation needed] Dairy cattle rarely make good meat cattle - especially after
several years as dairy cows- and for that reason, beef has traditionally been ground and cooked as
patties or prepared as boiled roast or soup. Today meat-cattle is more common and steaks are
popular, especially top sirloin steak of beef (culottesteg) is a classic dish to serve for guests.
Poultry consumption is dominated by chicken, with chicken filet and as the most popular choice.[37][38]
The Danes meat consumption remains high, but meat has overall lost a little bit of ground to
vegetables and vegetarian food in the 2010s. Also there is a tendency to replace popular meats with
chicken.[39][40]
Traditional main course dishes[edit]
Many traditional dishes have been abandoned in Denmark in the last 4-5 decades, especially dishes
requiring long preparations but also organ meat dishes. Fast preparations, pre-cooked meals and
foreign inspired cooking from around the world, has increasingly found its way into the kitchens of
the common Danish family.[41][42] Traditional Danish main course dishes includes:
"Stegt flæsk med persillesovs", fried, uncured bacon with parsley sauce
Ham with stewed kale and caramelized potatoes

"Boller i karry" made with apples and celery and served with rice and cucumber pickle
 Boller i karry (Dumplings in curry). Meat balls of pork in curry sauce, served with rice and
cucumber pickle.
 Gammeldags kylling (Old-fashioned chicken). Pot-roast whole chicken stuffed with parsley and
served with boiled potatoes, thick brown sauce, cucumber pickle and rhubarb compote.
 Frikadeller, pan-fried meat balls of pork, or a mix of veal and pork, with spices. There are many
variations on the recipe and frikadellercan be served with a variety of accompaniments and
vegetable side dishes, hot and cold. Stuvet hvidkål comprising stewed white cabbage in white
sauce is a classic.
 Hakkebøf, ground beef steak. Traditionally served with soft caramelized onions (on top), brown
sauce, boiled potatoes and pickled beets or cucumbers.
 Hjerter i Flødesovs (Hearts in cream sauce) Calf's hearts are cleaned and stuffed with parsley
and smoked bacon or lard from pork. They are seasoned and fried in a pot with butter and
onions. Bouillon and cream is added and they are left to simmer for 1½ hour. The hearts are
sliced and served with the sauce, mashed potatoes and surt (a general term for pickled
vegetables).[42]
 Stegt lever (Fried liver), fried slices of calf's liver served like hakkebøf, but without the pickles.
Sometimes accompanied with fried mushrooms and often substituted with pig's liver.
 Stegte sild (Fried herrings). Herring has traditionally been a popular fish and there are numerous
recipes for fried, pickled or smoked herring served as a main course.[43]
 Æbleflæsk (Apple-pork), fried pork slices served with a compote of apple, onion and bacon.
 Stegt flæsk med persillesovs, slices of fried belly pork served with persillesovs (white sauce with
chopped parsley) and potatoes. In 2014, voted as the national dish in a vote organised by the
Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark.[44]
 Medisterpølse, thick, spiced, minced pork sausage, fried and served in a variety of
ways. Rødkål (see below), rye bread and mustard are classic accompaniments.
 Gule Ærter (Yellow peas), a thick and hearty soup of yellow split peas, cooked and served with
pork. Served with ryebread and mustard and sometimes medisterpølse and potatoes. In some
families and in some regions Gule Ærter is enjoyed at specific events, traditions or at larger
gatherings.[45][46]
 Hønsekødssuppe (Hens-meat-soup). A strong soup boiled on a large hen with herbs and
vegetables like carrots, celeriac, onions and leeks. The meat is usually reserved for other dishes
like Høns i Asparges, Høns i peberrod or chicken salad for smørrebrød, and the soup is then
served on its own with meatballs of pork (kødboller), small white dumplings of flour and milk
(melboller), and a few of the vegetables.[47]
 Høns i Asparges (Hens in Asparagus) Boiled hens meat (traditionally from Hønsekødssuppe) is
cooked with a little chicken soup, a bit of flour and some chopped white asparagus. Sometimes
chopped champignons are added. The dish is thickened and flavoured with cream and egg yolks
and served with boiled potatoes and a drizzle of parsley.[47]
 Tarteletter (Tartlets). Small bowls of crusty pastry. They can be filled with a variety of
ingredients, but tradition calls for Høns i Asparges.[47][48]
 Æggekage (Egg-cake) -- similar to an omelette. Traditionally served in the pan with fried bacon,
sliced tomatoes, copious amounts of chopped chives and buttered rye bread. Smoked herring is
sometimes offered on the side.
 Påskelam (Easter-lamb) grilled lamb with dry herbs and garlic.
 Culottesteg, top sirloin roast beef with dry herbs served with potatoes and green salad or gravy.
 Stegt gås, roast goose is sometimes served for Christmas.
 Stegt and, roast duck prepared like roast goose, stuffed with apples, prunes and thyme. Most
popular Christmas dish in Denmark, often accompanied with flæskesteg and almoast always
with rødkål. Also served on Morten's aften (St. Martin's Day, November 11), where it has
replaced an older tradition of roast goose.
 Flæskesteg, roast pork with crackling, often served at Christmas.
 Rødkål, sliced red cabbage stewed with duck grease, sugar, vinegar, apples, onion, red wine
and spices such as cloves, bay leaves, cinnamon, cardamom and allspice. Served for
Christmas, but not exclusively. Rødkål is a traditional accompaniment
to flæskesteg, medister, frikadeller, stegt and and stegt gås.
 Brunede kartofler (Browned potatoes), boiled potatoes caramelized with sugar and butter.
Mostly served for Christmas, accompanying the roast duck, goose or pork.
 Øllebrød (Beer-bread), a porridge made of rye bread, sugar and beer. Formerly served
unsweetened accompanying main courses like fried herring, but now almost exclusively served
for breakfast with cold milk or whipped cream. Lemon or orange zest is sometimes added for
spice.
 Millionbøf, (Million-steak), fried ground beef (a million tiny steaks) with gravy. Usually served
over pasta or mashed potatoes.
 Brændende kærlighed (Burning love), mashed potatoes made with butter and milk or cream. A
well is made in the top of the mashed potatoes and filled with a mix of fried diced bacon and
onions.
 Risengrød, (Rice-porridge), a dish that has a special relationship to Christmas. It is traditionally
the favorite dish of the Nisse. Usually served with butter, cinnamon sugar and nisseøl. It is also
the basis of the Danish Christmas dessert Risalamande.
Desserts[edit]
Desserts from the traditional Danish cuisine that are still popular, includes:
"Æblekage", a cold apple charlotte.
 Æblekage, (apple charlotte). Stewed sweetened apples layered with butter-roasted bread
crumbs and crushed makroner (an almond-flavoured meringue), topped with whipped cream
and sometimes redcurrant jelly. Served cold.
 Citronfromage (lemon custard). A very thick lemon flavoured custard made with both gelatin and
beaten egg whites with sugar (see Meringue). Served cold with whipped cream. Flavouring
with rum instead of lemon, is a traditional variation known as Romfromage.[49]
 Karamelrand (lit.: Caramel-ridge). A cream and egg based custard flavoured with caramel and
shaped like a ring. Served cold with a caramel sauce. A traditional variation is Fløderand, which
is flavoured with vanilla and served with pickled fruit, instead of the caramel.[50]
 Frugtsalat. Fruit salad topped with vanilla cream or whipped cream and grated chocolate. This is
a more recent addition to the Danish cuisine and tropical or foreign fruits like banana, grapes,
orange or pineapple are standard ingredients. Also known as abemad (monkey food).[51]
 Rødgrød med fløde, stewed, thickened red berry compote (usually a mix of strawberries,
rhubarb, raspberry) served with cream or as topping on ice cream.
 Pandekager, a thin, crepe-like pancake, often sprinkled with confectioner's sugar, rolled up, and
served with strawberry jam or vanilla ice cream. Since 2006, Shrove Tuesday has been
celebrated as Pancake Day in Denmark.[52]
 Koldskål. A sweet cold buttermilk dish with vanilla and lemon, often served in the summer.
 Danish strawberries with cream and sugar, served in the summer when in season.[53]
 Risalamande (or ris à l'amande), a cold rice pudding mixed with whipped cream, sugar, vanilla
beans and chopped almonds, served cold with hot or cold cherry-sauce. Almost exclusively
served on festive events related to Christmas and commonly eaten on Christmas Eve in
particular.
Cakes[edit]
Cakes are usually not served for dessert in Denmark, but as an occasional sweet treat in between
meals or at celebrations and particular festive events. Coffee or tea is usually offered with cakes.
Traditional feasts[edit]
Danish culture has a number of annual recurring traditional feasts. Most of them are rooted in both
the Norse pagan tradition and the Christian culture, including the most widely celebrated feast
of Christmas, known as Jul in Denmark. Christmas and Easter are the most prominent feasts in
Danish culture, both in terms of religious and traditional importance but also food wise. A number of
smaller feasts such as Fastelavn (Carnival), Pinse (Pentecost) and Mortensaften (St. Martin's Day),
are also of some importance regarding food while other traditional celebrations such
as Grundlovsdag, May Day and Sankthans (St. John's Eve) are not coupled to the Danish food
culture in any special way.
The celebration of New Year's Eve is perhaps on par with both Christmas and Easter in modern
times and is also coupled with some strong food traditions. Poached cod served with mustard sauce,
boiled potatoes and horseradish is traditionally enjoyed as the main course on this evening, known
as nytårstorsk (New Year's Cod), with champagne and kransekage served later in the
night.[54][55] Slices of boiled ham served with stewed kale is another traditional dish for this particular
evening. In recent decades, the traditional menus has given way to contemporary gourmet servings
in many places, even though the champagne and the kransekage remains very popular.[56]
Christmas[edit]
There are some regional variations of the traditional Christmas cuisine within Denmark, but it is
generally the same across the country.[57][58] It includes a lot of spices, in
particular cinnamon, cloves and cardamom.[59]
Christmas lunch[edit]
"Risalamande", a vanilla flavored rice pudding for Christmas

Julefrokost, or Christmas lunch, is a variation on Det Kolde Bord buffet, celebrated on various
occasions throughout the whole Christmas month of December. Most communities, workplaces,
organisations and associations set aside time for an annual gathering and julefrokost on a non-
specific Friday or Saturday. This includes coworkers, club members and all kinds of organizations
and the festivities often include music and dancing, and usually continues into the early hours of the
morning with plentiful drinking. In addition to these public gatherings, there is also tradition for a
special family event julefrokost, but this is celebrated in the home on Christmas Day or shortly after.
Apart from the standard food items for a Danish cold buffet, Christmas lunch julefrokost traditionally
also includes some specialities, such as sylte (pork meat jelly),
fried blodpølse and Risalamande. Blodpølse is a sweetened and spiced blood sausage with raisins,
but it has decreased a lot in popularity since the 1800s.[60] Risalamande is a rice pudding served with
hot or cold cherry sauce and it is very popular. The pudding consists mainly of sweetened and
cooled rice porridge mixed with whipped cream, vanilla and chopped almonds. A popular and
traditional game is to put a whole, peeled almond in the common bowl of pudding. The lucky person
to find it in his or her serving wins a prize, which in popular traditions would be a pig shaped of
marzipan.[61]
Juleøl Christmas beer brews and herb infused akvavit spirit is commonly paired with the julefrokost.
All over Denmark, trains and buses run all night during the julefrokost season and the police are on a
special lookout for drunk drivers to avoid alcohol related accidents.[61]
A special part of not only the julefrokost lunch but of many festive, celebratory meals is
the selskabssang (party song). It is a tradition unique to Denmark, and includes event-specific sing-
along songs to traditional tunes, but with lyrics specifically written for the occasion.[62]
Christmas dinner at home[edit]
"Flæskesteg", roast pork with crackling

In Denmark, the Christmas dinner is served on the evening of 24 December (Christmas Eve). It
takes the form of a main dish (usually pork, goose or duck) and the Risalamande dessert. The
traditional recipes from Frk. Jensen's 1901 cook book (see below) still form the basis of Christmas
cooking today.[63]
Flæskesteg, a pork roast cut from the breast or neck and with the skin left on, is prepared by cutting
the skin through to the meat layer sideways and rubbing it thoroughly with coarse salt flakes and
sometimes spices to guarantee crispy tasty cracklings. Slices of roasted flæskesteg is served with
brown gravy and accompanied by both boiled potatoes and caramelized potatoes (brunede kartofler)
specially prepared in a frying pan with melted sugar and a lump of butter. Sour-sweet spiced red
cabbage is always included too and is widely available in jars and cans.[64]
Goose and duck are filled with a stuffing of apple boats and prunes before they are roasted in a hot
oven. The bird is served with a brown sauce based on the broth obtained by boiling the heart, neck,
liver and gizzard, thickened with a little fat from the bird, flour and sour cream. Gravy browning may
be added.[64] Just like the pork, the bird is served with two kinds of potatoes and red cabbage.[64]
Easter[edit]
Holy Saturday lunch[edit]
Holy Saturday the traditional dish served for lunch is Skidne æg (Dirty eggs),[65] the name referres to
fact that the homes were usually dirty on Holy Saturday, as no work and no cleaning or laundry
would be done on the two holidays: Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Skidne æg is medium
boiled eggs, served with mustard sauce, cress and ryebread.
Easter Sunday lunch[edit]
Families gather for lunch on Easter Sunday. The lunch will typically consist three courses, starting
with "det kolde bord" with pickled herring, prawns, hard-boiled eggs, tuna, liverpaté and various cold
cuts. Strong Easter Brew beer and snaps is usually served. The second dish is a warm dish, that
according to tradition should contain either lamb, eggs or chicken. The third dish is cheeses with
grapes, red peppers and crackers.[66]
Eating out[edit]
Many old inns in the countryside serve traditional dishes.

Eating out in restaurants can be a costly affair, with the average price running higher than that of the
European average.[67] As a result of the New Nordic Cuisine trend, Danish restaurants are now firmly
on the international gourmet map.
In the big cities, and in shopping districts, there are many more reasonably priced eating places,
including such chain fast food possibilities as McDonald's and Burger King. The most common quick
food restaurant is the "burger bar" or "grill bar", offering hamburgers, hot dogs and a wide variety of
other fast food staples. Pizzerias are equally popular and can be found in every town in the country,
large or small. Other commonly found fast foods include Turkish and Middle East food specialties
such as falafel, shish-kebab and spit-roasted meat (most often shawarma) with salad in pita bread,
or wrapped in durum wheat based flatbread.[68]
Restaurants[edit]
Restaurants with fine dining.

Denmark has many fine dining restaurants, not only in the larger cities, but also in the countryside.
The kro (roughly equivalent to an inn, but held in higher social regard) provides lodging as well as
meals and drinks. Especially the royally privileged lodges have a long and interesting
history.[69] Danish cuisine continues to evolve and keep up with the times. It has become more
health-conscious, and has drawn inspiration not only from the traditional French and Italian kitchens,
but also from many other more exotic gastronomical sources. Increasingly, restaurants are turning to
trends based on a combination of continental cooking and the growing interest in products from the
local environment served in accordance with seasonal availability.[9]
Cafés[edit]
Cafés are popular for light meals and some cafés serves as restaurants.
Another reasonable place to eat is at a café. These are plentiful, especially in the bigger cities, and
usually offer soups, sandwiches, salads, cakes, pastries, and other light foods, in addition to the
expected coffee, tea, beer and other beverages. Quite a few cafés serve breakfast and brunch, and
some double as evening restaurants.
Most cafés in Denmark are unique, but chains are increasingly popular. The Danish coffee-bar chain
of Baresso Coffee, founded in 1999, mainly serves coffee and tea related products and is present
with many cafés in most larger towns across Denmark, but also in the Faroe Islands as well
as Copenhagen Airport and MS Crown of Scandinavia.[70] International café chains has gained
ground in the capital of Copenhagen, currently including two Starbucks and several Caffè
Ritazza (UK), at the Copenhagen Airport, Magasin Torv by the Magasin Du Nord department store,
and at Copenhagen Central Station.
Street food[edit]
Street food has made an enormous impact on the way Danes eat in the 2010s, but street food has
been part of Danish dining culture for many years.[71][72]
Hot dog vans[edit]
Red sausages (røde pølser)

A pølsevogn in the city center of Kolding (Jutland)
The pølsevogn (lit. sausage wagon) food truck is a well-established common fast food option and
the "original" street food outlet in Denmark. They serve a variety of pork sausages, including
Denmark's renowned red sausages, røde pølser. These hot dog-like sausages of the Vienna
type are about 20 cm long, about the diameter of an index finger and stuffed in brightly coloured red
skin. Røde pølser are traditionally served on a small, rectangular paper plate with a bread (similar to
a hot dog bun, but without a slice in it) on the side, and a squirt of both ketchup,
Danish remoulade sauce and mustard. Danish remoulade is somewhat similar to
American relish and the mustard served with sausages is hot and unsweetened. The bread and
sausage is eaten alternately, dipped into the condiments.[73] Typical and classic sausages served
from a pølsevogn also includes, thick and juicy knækpølser (both red and uncoloured), long thick
and grilled frankfurtere, hearty grilled medisterpølse, large grilled kryddersvend sausages spiced
with curry, and pølse i svøb (sausage in a wrap) which are a sausage wrapped in and grilled with
bacon.
When the sausage is served in a traditional hot dog bun, it is called a "hot dog". It is commonly
served with Danish remoulade, ketchup, mustard, onion (both raw and toasted, i.e. ristede) and
thinly sliced pickles on top. The ristede løg fried onions are similar in taste to French-fried onion
rings. The pickled condiment varies from region to region, and includes rødkål red cabbage in some
places, but cucumber relish is the most widespread. Another variety is the French hot dog (Fransk
hotdog) which is a sausage stuffed into a special long baguette-like bread roll. The roll has a hole in
one end, and after the requested condiment has been squirted in (ketchup, mustard, different kinds
of dressing), a sausage is slipped through. The simplest sausage wagons are portable and very
temporary. They are typically a metal wagon with an open window to the street, and a counter where
customers can stand and eat their sausages. More advanced wagons includes limited seating,
usually both inside and outside. Through the years the number of sausage wagons has dropped as
competition from convenience stores, gas stations, kebab and pizza-places has increased.[73]
Social dining[edit]
Food courts emerged on the Copenhagen dining scene in 2011 and quickly became very popular,
inspiring similar initiatives in Aarhus from 2015.[74][75] Parallel with the stationary and sheltered food
courts, mobile food trucks appeared, selling a wide variety of meals at events and random popular
spots. This new development is part of a broader popular movement of social dining across the
country, with a multitude of local food, dining and cooking clubs, purchasing societies and urban
farming projects sprouting among citizens in larger cities.[76][77][78][79]
Other popular foods[edit]

Potatoes[edit]
Roast pork served with both white and caramelized potatoes (brunede kartofler)
Potato recipes are ubiquitous in Danish cooking. The potato was first introduced into Denmark by
French immigrant Huguenots in Fredericiain 1720.[80] The potato is considered an essential side dish
to every hot meal.[81]
Especially prized are the season's early potatoes, such as those from Samsø.
Some favorites:
 Au gratin potatoes
 Baked potatoes with crème fraiche
 Boiled new potatoes with herbs
 Potato wedges au natural or baked with beetroots and carrots marinated in olive oil, garlic and
dry herbs.
 Boiled potatoes smothered in butter with fresh dill or chives
 Caramelized browned potatoes (brunede kartofler). Usually an accessory to the Christmas meal,
roast goose, duck or pork.
 Cold sliced potatoes arranged on buttered rye bread and decorated with mayonnaise and chives
 Mashed potatoes covered with a meat stew
 Pommes frites (French fries)
 Potato salad (kartoffelsalat)
 Potato and Parsley Broth
Vegetables and salads[edit]
Agurkesalat: pickled cucumber salad

Although the potato is the central vegetable in traditional Danish cooking, it is by no means the only
vegetable associated with Danish cuisine. Those other vegetables that play an important role often
had to be preserved for long periods of time in cold rooms, or were pickled or marinated for storage.
Cauliflower, carrots and a variety of cabbages were often a part of the daily meal, especially when in
season, in the days prior to widespread refrigeration.
 Beans (bønner)
 Peas (ærter) Especially popular when freshly picked.
 Brussels sprouts (rosenkål)
 Cabbage (kål)
 Carrots (gulerødder)
 Creamed kale (grønlangkål), spinach or white cabbage
 Cauliflower (blomkål)
 Cucumber salad (agurkesalat)
 Italian salad (italiensk salat), a mixture of vegetables in a mayonnaise dressing, served
on ham and other cold cuts. The name comes from the red-white-green coloring, the colors of
the Italian flag. The salad's colouring originates from carrots, mayonnaise and asparagus, and
green peas.
 Onion (løg)
 Pickled red beet slices (rødbeder)
 Pickles, a mixture of pickled vegetables in a yellow gelatinous sauce, served with corned beef
 Russian salad (russisk salat), a red beet salad (not to be confused with Olivier salad, which is
also known as Russian salad).
 Sweet and sour red cabbage (rødkål). Sautéed red cabbage, boiled with red currant juice,
apples and vinegar. Additional sugar may be added, and sometimes cinnamon or cloves.
Sauces and condiments[edit]
Danish remoulade is a widely used condiment

Sauces and condiments are an important part of the Danish meal:
 Béarnaise sauce, served with beef steaks

 Brown sauce (brun sovs), served with just about anything and everything. Variations include
mushroom sauce, onion sauce and herbed brown sauce.
 Horseradish sauce (peberrodssovs), a cream sauce served with roast beef or prime rib.
Sometimes frozen into individual servings for placement on hot roast beef.
 Ketchup, a must with red sausages, along with mustard.
 Mayonnaise, used in food preparation, and as a condiment with pommes frites (French fries). A
generous dollop of mayonnaise is generally placed on top of shrimp.
 Mustard (sennep). A wide variety of mustards are available. Traditional mustard is a sharp
flavored, dark golden brown, but many other types are used, including dijon, honey-mustard and
other specialty flavored variants. Prepared salad mustard (yellow mustard) is generally eaten
with red sausage or hot dogs. A special sweet mustard with dill is eaten with smoked salmon
(laks).
 Parsley sauce (persillesovs), a white sauce with generously amounts of chopped fresh parsley.
 Pepper sauce, served with beef steaks and roasts.
 Remoulade, a very commonly used condiment. A popular dipping sauce for pommes
frites (French fries).
 Whiskey sauce, served with beef steaks and roasts
 White sauce. Various kinds of blanched vegetables are often added such as peas, peas and
carrots, cauliflower, spinach, parsley or shredded cabbage. White sauce is typically flavoured
with black pepper and nutmeg.
Cheese[edit]
Danablu (Danish Blue cheese)

Denmark is known for quality dairy products, and that includes cheese. In Denmark, cheese might
be served as part of breakfast, lunch or in salads and also as an after-dinner snack, referred to as a
so-called ostebord (lit.: cheese-table) or ostetallerken (lit: cheese-plate) along with grapes, crackers
and wine.
While the most commonly eaten cheese in Denmark is mild, there are also stronger Danish cheeses
available, some of which are very pungent. Danish Blue cheese can be quite strong, and Danish
cheese manufacturers produce molded cheeses that span the range from the mildest and creamiest
to the intense blue-veined cheese internationally associated with Denmark. Another strong cheese
is Gamle Ole (lit: Old Ole - Ole is a man's name), a brand of pungent aged cheese that has matured
for a longer period of time. It can be bitingly strong. It is often served in combination with sliced onion
and aspic (sky) on Danish rugbrød spread with lard. Rum may be dripped on this pungent cheese
prior to serving.
Strong cheeses are an acquired taste for Danes too. Elderly Danes who find the smell offensive
might joke about Gamle Ole's smelling up a whole house, just by being in a sealed plastic container
in the refrigerator. One might also refer to Gamle Ole's pungency when talking about things that are
not quite right, i.e. "they stink". Here one might say that something stinks or smells of Gamle Ole.[82]
Danish cheese is almost exclusively produced from cow's milk. Some well-known Danish cheeses
include:[83]
 Danablu, a strong blue creamy cow's milk cheese.

 Blue Castello, a blue cheese
 Esrom, a semi-soft and aged cow's milk cheese. Both young and more matured versions are
produced.
 Danbo, a semi-soft and aged cow's milk cheese. Mostly mild in flavor, but extensively aged and
more pungent versions are also produced.
 Mycella, a traditional cow's milk creamy cheese. This cheese is often described as a Danish
version of Gorgonzola.
 Vesterhavsost, a hard cheese from cow's milk, and aged in caves. Has a slightly nutty flavor.
 Havarti, a semi-soft cow's milk cheese, named after the experimental farm from which it
originated in the mid-19th century.
 Apetina, a blanched cow's milk cheese. This cheese is often sold sliced up in small cubes,
sometimes submerged in herb flavoured oil and used in salads much like Greek feta.
 Rygeost or røgeost. A smoked fresh soft cream cheese, made of cow's milk and buttermilk and
an original speciality from the island of Funen. This cheese is spiced with carawayseeds and
traditionally served with radish, chives and rye bread.[84]
In relation to Apetina, Denmark lost a long legal battle with Greece,[85] to use the term "feta" for
Danish cheese produced using artificially blanched cow's milk. Since July 2002, feta has been
a protected designation of origin (PDO), which limits the term within the European Union to feta
made exclusively of sheep's/goat's milk in Greece.[86][87] Because of the decision by the European
Union, Danish dairy company Arla Foods (who also manufacture Danbo) changed the name of their
Feta product to Apetina.[88]
Seasonings and herbs[edit]
Parsley, used fresh and in sauces

Fresh herbs are very popular, and a wide variety are readily available at supermarkets or local
produce stands. Many people grow fresh herbs either in the kitchen window, in window boxes or
outside, weather permitting. Most commonly used herbs and other seasonings in Danish
cooking:[citation needed]
 Bay leaves
 Black pepper
 Chives
 Cress
 Curry powder
 Dill
 Garlic
 Parsley
 Rosemary
 Thyme
 Oregano
Other spices used in the traditional Danish cuisine
includes nutmeg, carraway, juniper, allspice and ginger (powder and candied). In modern times, the
use and variety of spices has increased and now spices like chilli, paprika, basil and star anise is
used widely.
Fruit[edit]
Fresh strawberries, a Danish summertime favourite

Similarly to vegetables, fruit had to withstand long storage during the winter to become a part of the
traditional cuisine. Fruit is generally eaten in smaller portions, often as an accompaniment to cheese,
or as decoration with desserts.
Fruit that is traditionally associated with Danish cuisine:
 Apples (Æbler) Popular in traditional dishes as 'winter apples' store well. Can be fried and
served with Flæsk (thick bacon)
 Blackcurrant (Solbær), literally 'sun berries'
 Cherries (Kirsebær) When in season eaten fresh. But famously cooked into cherry sauce,
traditionally served over rice pudding (risalamande) at Christmas. Also used in making Heering,
a famous cherry liqueur, produced in Denmark.
 Gooseberry (Stikkelsbær) literally 'thorny berries'. Used for stewed gooseberries
(stikkelsbærgrød).
 Pears (Pærer)
 Plums (Blommer)
 Raspberries (Hindbær)
 Redcurrants (Ribs) Made to jelly or simply mixed raw with sugar as (Rysteribs), served to roast.
 Strawberries (Jordbær), literally 'earth berries'
A combination of strawberries, red currants, black currants, blueberries and mulberries is known as
"forest fruits" (skovbær) and is a common component in tarts and marmalades. A popular dessert
is rødgrød, made from one or more kinds of berries or rhubarbs, boiled down to a red porridge. It is
served with cream, sometimes milk.
"Rødgrød med fløde" is often jokingly used by Danes as a shibboleth, as it contains the soft "d"
several times, which most foreigners find difficult to pronounce.
Baked goods[edit]
"Rundstykker", Danish breakfast rolls
Bread is a very important part of the Danish table.[89] It is enjoyed at home, in the workplace or in
restaurants and is usually based primarily on rugbrød, which is sour-dough rye bread. It is a dark,
heavy bread which is sometimes bought pre-sliced, in varieties from light-colored rye, to very dark,
and refined to whole grain. Rugbrød forms the basis of smørrebrød (see above).[90] Many people still
bake at home, particularly boller, which are small bread rolls, and often the traditional kringle, which
is a pastry filled with Zante currants and remonce paste. The Danish franskbrød (lit: French-bread)
are leavened wheat breads, roughly equivalent to white bread. Franskbrød are available in many
varieties, ranging from whole wheat to pumpkin, chestnut, or poppy-seed sprinked loaves and loaves
containing maize, müsli or honey. Some loaves are made with alternative wheat sorts
like emmer or spelt and some contains small amounts of low-gluten grains such rye. Leavened
brown loaves are also referred to as franskbrød.[91] People often eat jam with cheese on crusty white
bread for breakfast, and also very thin slices of chocolate, called pålægschokolade. Because of the
popular rye bread, Danes eat less wheat bread than most other western countries, even though
bread is part of most daily meals.
Cakes[edit]
Denmark has a large variety of cakes and in 1997, the bakers guild launched the now countrywide
celebration of Kagens Dag (Day of the Cake) as an annual recurring event in April–May.[92][93] The
region of Sønderjylland has become known for its concept of Sønderjydsk kaffebord, serving
copious amounts of coffee and regional cakes on gatherings and festive afternoons.[94][95] Typical
Danish cakes include:
"Kanelsnegl". In Denmark, Danish pastry comes in many shapes and sizes.

"Småkager". Denmark is a noted exporter of butter cookies.
 Wienerbrød (Danish pastry) – Denmark has a large variety of Danish pastries; most of the
recipes are based on the same kind of dough.
 Kringle – a pretzel-shaped Danish pastry. It has symbolized bakers in Denmark since the
early Middle Ages, and in the United States "kringle" is associated with the country of
Denmark.[96]
 Kagemand ("cake-man") – a Danish pastry in the shape of a man. Decorated with icing and
candy. Traditionally served at children's birthday parties.
 Småkager ("small-cakes") – Cookies, usually baked hard and crusty in an oven, but both pan
and deep fried versions exist. There is a large variety of småkager in Denmark. Most of the
recipes came about when stoves became common property in the last part of the 1800s, but
some recipes like Klejner and Pebernødder have been around since the Middle Ages. Quite a
few recipes are associated with Christmas.[97] Denmark has a significant export of quality butter
cookies.[98]
 Pebernødder – ("pepper nuts") – A small, spicy cookie associated with Christmas.
Traditionally used in a number of games.
 Vaniljekranse – Vanilla-flavoured butter cookies in a ring-shape.[99]
 Flødekager ("cream-cakes") – These cakes earn their name from the generous amounts of
whipped cream used to make them and are served cold. The many varieties do not always
include baked ingredients. They were largely introduced in the 1800s and 1900s
when Konditorier became popular in larger towns. A Konditori is the Danish version of the
French patisserie, and they were booming in the 1940s and 1950s.[100]
 Lagkage (layer cake) – This cake has thin sponge cake layers, often with mashed berries
and whipped cream or custard between the layers and decorated with fruit on top. Layer
cakes are usually considered a flødekage in Denmark. They are often used to celebrate
birthdays, on which occasion they will traditionally be decorated with as many lit candles as
the age of the celebrated individual. He is then supposed to blow them all out in one try or
he will be in bad luck. Some Danish layer cakes follow strict recipes like
the Rugbrødslagkage made with crumbled and toasted rye bread or the Othellolagkage,
made with marzipan and chocolate cream.[101][95]
 Gåsebryst ("Goose breast") consists of a crisp puff pastry bottom with a generous spread
of prune jam and a thick layer of whipped cream on top. The cake is wrapped in a thinly
rolled layer of marzipan. Several slight variations exists and this particular cream cake is
also popular in Norway.[95]
 Tørkager ("dry-cakes") – As the name implies this kind of cake comprise dry cakes, as
compared to the moist cream cakes and layer cakes, and they are often made with
sweet shortcrust dough and served cold.
 Kransekage ("ringcake") is a marzipan-based cake, usually served at special celebrations
and on New Year's Eve. It comes in various shapes and sizes. A popular arrangement
consists of a stack of ring shaped cakes of increasingly smaller size, creating an upside
down cone form. The cake rings are decorated with white icing, and the arrangement is
decorated with small red-and-white Danish paper flags. On special occasions they will hide
a bottle of champagne. Kransekage is typically served with champagne on New Year's Eve
or to celebrate weddings, "round" birthdays and anniversaries.
 Studenterbrød ("graduates-bread") is a popular cold confectionery cake consisting of
scratch-made thick cookie butter on a thin crispy crust of shortcrust dough with a spread of
raspberry jam in-between. The cookie butter is flavoured with cocoa powder and rum,
although the more inexpensive rum essence is normally used. Topped with chocolate icing
and sprinkles.
 Hindbærsnitte ("raspberry-slice") consists of two thin and crusty baked pieces of shorthcrust
with a spread of raspberry jam in bewtween, covered in white icing and sprinkels.
 Pies and tarts
 Strawberry pie – very popular in the summer. Normally sold in bakeries with a chocolate
covered crust and filled with marzipan.
 Apple pie – oven baked. Served either hot or cold, usually with a dollop of creme fraiche or
whipped cream, occasionally vanilla ice cream.
 Other cakes
 Æbleskiver ("apple slices") – Fried spherical cakes made in special pans. Contrary to the
name, æbleskiver is not made with apples, but of a puffy pancake dough with buttermilk and
cardamom. Danes eat them hot throughout December as a Christmas tradition, served with
both confectioner's sugar and jam (strawberry or black currant).
 Pandekager (pancakes) – These are thin pancakes usually served with jam, granulated
sugar and sometimes vanilla ice cream and rolled up before eaten.
"Napoleons Hat", a marzipan-filled cake dipped in dark chocolate
"Tebirkes", a Danish pasty with poppy seeds
"Æbleskiver"

"Kransekage"
"Fastelavnsboller", carnival cakes
"Kagemand"
"Othellolagkage"
"Kaj kage", cream cakes resembling a frog[102]


"Gåsebryst", a cream cake with marzipan

Sweets[edit]
Denmark is not a noted exporter of candies, but Danes eat more candy per capita than in other
countries.[103]
Liquorice and banana candy
 Chocolate – Denmark has a long tradition of producing delicious chocolate known worldwide,
most famous brand is Anthon Berg.
 Liquorice – A very popular herb extraction in Denmark used for a number of widely available
sweets, but also ice cream, desserts and in some dishes as well. Salmiaklakrids, flavoured
with salmiak, and salty Salt lakrids are typical Danish candy. Denmark produces some of the
strongest liquorice in the world and many Danes have a tendency to put liquorice (“lakrids” in
Danish) on everything, which foreigners sometimes really can’t understand.
 Marzipan – A typical treat for Christmas, but enjoyed year round and also exported. Marzipan in
Denmark is typically less sweet and with a higher content of almonds than what you normally
find elsewhere. The largest and best known exporter is perhaps Anthon Berg. In Denmark,
only Ægte Marcipan (True Marzipan) is required to contain almonds; for ordinary
marzipan, apricot kernels are widely used as substitutes for the more expensive almonds.
Marzipan made with pistachios and walnuts is also sold but is not as common.[104][105]
 Wine gums – While similar looking and often similar branded as in other European countries,
Danish wine gums are much less sweet and have more texture.
There also exists a vast amount of other types of sweets and candy, ranging
from gumdrops and dragée to mints and caramel sweets. A concept known as Bland selv
slik (literally "mix-yourself candy") is common in Danish supermarkets and kiosks. It comprise a
number of lined-up containers, usually between 20 and 50, each with a different kind of candy, and
customers then service themselves with a paper bag and a small scoop. The paper bag is then
weighed, and paid for.
Both Danish and imported candy are found in these box assortments, and the shape, texture and
flavor differences are often very creative. Candy have been manufactured resembling a vast amount
of objects, such as flying saucers, tennis raquets, soccer balls, butterflies, and, even stranger, teeth
and toothbrushes.[106]
Drinks[edit]
Traditional or popular drinks consumed in Denmark includes:
A cup of coffee. As the other Nordic countries, Denmark is among the largest consumers
(per capita) in the world.
 Coffee (Kaffe). Filter coffee is the most popular way to make coffee, closely followed
by pressing. The coffee is mostly had black, but milk and sugar is usually offered. It is drunk
throughout the day and evening, and always in the morning. Nearly all cafés serves a wide
variety of coffee brews, from espresso to flat white and caffè latte. Coffee is a very popular
beverage throughout the Nordic countries and Denmark has the fifth highest coffee consumption
per capita in the world.[107]
 Chocolate milk (kakaomælk) and hot chocolate (varm kakao). Cold chocolate milk is widely
consumed and hot chocolate can be had in most cafés. At home, hot chocolate is often served
to children as an essential part of family hygge.[108][109]
 Hyldeblomstsaft. Sweetened elderflower drink, often mixed at home with added water.
Sometimes served hot in the winter but usually cold.[110]
 Danskvand, or hvid vand, is simply carbonated water. It is often flavoured with citrus.
 Saftevand, a diluting juice made from concentrated and sweetened fruit syrup. The syrup is
mixed with plain water by the consumer and served right away. In former times, diluting juices
were a luxury product in Denmark, because of the limited availability of sugar, but from the
1980s and 90s, the consumption had risen to the popularity it experiences today. Many different
kinds, including artificial products.[111]
 Sodavand are soft drinks of various flavours and it has long been a very popular drink.
International brands like Coca Cola, Pepsi, Fanta and Sprite is widely consumed, but there are
many local brands of soft drinks as well, some of which are unique. This includes Nikoline
(without artificial flavours), Tuborg Squash, Faxe Kondi or the traditional citronvand (lemon
soda) and hindbærbrus (raspberry soda).[112]
Notable alcoholic beverages includes:
Øl og snaps, (beer and akvavit)
 Akvavit, usually called snaps. A clear, high proof spirit made from potatoes but, unlike vodka,
always flavoured with herbs (dill, caraway, sweetgale, etc.)[113]
 Beer (øl) has been widely consumed in Denmark for millennia. Carlsberg and Tuborg are two
large Danish producers with a notable export. Drinking a "pilsner" is a favored activity by many
Danes after work or, when relaxing or socialising. The pilsner type is the dominant beer type, but
many other types are available. In the 2000's, small breweries have been budding up all over the
country with new local brews of all kinds.[114]
 Bitters. The most popular bitter is Gammel Dansk (translated, Old Danish).[113]
 Mjød, mead made legendary by the Vikings. Rare to find outside speciality shops.[115]
 Fruit wines. Cherry wine, apple wine, black currant wine, elderberry wine.
 Gløgg, hot punch made with red wine, brandy and sherry with raisins and almonds. Spiced with
cloves and cinnamon, part of the Christmas tradition.[116]
 Wine (vin) is ever more popular. Almost exclusively imported wines, as Danish wine is only
produced in small quantities and is still rare to find outside speciality shops.[117]
Criticism[edit]
The Danish food culture is sometimes criticized by gastronomes and nutritionists.
Substantial criticism has been directed at the nutritional content of Danish food; for example, at the
ratio of meat, side dishes, and salad on the plate. Nutrition information campaigns have been trying
to get the Danes to become healthier by eating less meat, fat, and sugar, and more raw vegetables.
Instead of a healthier diet, however, the results too often have been feelings of guilt and a view of
food as something which is just the correct fuel for the body's machinery.[118]
Historian Søren Mørch has characterized the Danish cuisine as a "garbage kitchen" of insipid, sweet
and unspiced "baby food" where the tastes of milk and sweetness forms the key elements. He
believes that it arose because the export policy of the Danish food sector was to use the Danes as a
"gutter" for left over products after high quality bacon and butter had been sold abroad. Skim milk,
meat scraps only suitable for chopping up, and the replacement product margarine are products
which Søren Mørch describes as residue products.[119]
Frøken Jensens Kogebog[edit]
Cover to Frk. Jensens Kogebog, 1901

The cookery book published by Kristine Marie Jensen (1858–1923) in 1901 and titled Frk. Jensens
Kogebog (Miss Jensen's Cookbook) is considered by many Danes to contain all the authentic
recipes for traditional dishes as well as for baking bread, cakes and biscuits. It has been reprinted
dozens of times and new editions can be found in most Danish bookshops today. When Danes
prepare meals for special occasions, for example at Christmas time, they frequently follow Frøken
Jensen's detailed descriptions.[120][121] The book has not been translated into English but many of the
traditional Danish recipes on English-language websites are those of Frøken Jensen. The original
edition (only in Danish) is available online.[122]
See also[edit]
 Faroese cuisine
 Greenlandic cuisine
 List of Christmas dishes
Literature[edit]
 Kristine Marie Jensen (2008): Frøken Jensens Kogebog, (in Danish) 1st ed.,
Gyldendal. ISBN 9788702070385
The first revised and updated edition by Nanna Simonsen. Published on K.M. Jensens 150 year
birthday.
 Bent Christensen (2008): Gastronomien i Danmark, Lindhart og Ringhof Forlag, ISBN 978-87-
11-43071-2 (in Danish)
The story of the most famous chefs and the best restaurants in Denmark since WW II.
 Bettina Buhl (2015): Danskernes Småkager - et småkageleksikon, Gyldendal (in Danish)
Småkager in Denmark from a food-historical viewpoint.
 Bettina Buhl (2017): Sovs skal der til - opskrifter & historie, Gyldendal (in Danish)
Sauces in the traditional Danish cuisine from a food-historical viewpoint.
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The oldest, continuously used national flag is that of Denmark. The

current design of a white Scandinavian cross on a red back ground
was adopted in 1625 and its square shape in 1748. In Denmark it is
known as the 'Dannebrog' or 'Danish cloth'.
Although Denmark was never part of the Roman Empire, similar

designs were used by the Empire to represent provinces, as the white
cross is symbolic of Christianity. The Scandinavian cross has its
horizontal stripe slightly to the left hand side of the square as you face
it.
Although there is no prescribed definition of what constitutes

“continuous" use, the Danish flag was certainly in use in the 1370s, as
the Gelre Armorial by Claes Heinenzoon (or Heynen 1345-1414)
shows. It was also certainly used in the naval battles during the war
against Sweden in the 1560s, as shown in a watercolour in Rudolf
Dewenter’s Bericht von Pulver und Feuerwerken from 1585. In his
War Articles, promulgated on 8 May 1625, King Christian IV issued
the first known regulations for flying the flag and Colours of Command
in the Navy in Denmark.
It is often claimed that the Scottish Saltire can lay claim to a longer
continuous use as a national flag. According to the Flag Institute,
evidence for both the Saltire and the Dannebrog is fragmentary yet
their vexillologists believe that the balance of evidence points to
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country's patron saint in the 14th century, there appears to be no
direct evidence that the Saltire was always carried on a blue flag from
that date. Flags captured at the battle of Flodden in 1513 bore a
saltire, but they were not white on blue. A bill for the manufacture of
flags from the same year mentions a red St Andrews flag, not a blue
one. The flags captured in 1649–50 by Cromwell after the battles of
Dunbar and Worcester include ones with black or red saltires in
addition to white ones. Yet a white saltire on a blue flag was thought of
as sufficiently emblematic of Scotland for it to be included in the Union
Jack in 1606. It would therefore appear that the saltire, and the saltire
alone, that was the symbol of Scotland – the colours of the flag were
not of the first importance, particularly in the first half of the 16th
century. This would, according to the Flag Institute, bar it from being
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Danish music is something that is always evolving, but to truly understand

Danish music you must first learn a little about its roots to better understand how
it got to where it is today. Danish music has a very wide range of different folk
traditions along with creating some pop stars along the way and a host of
different performers in almost every genre that you can imagine. This is why
Danish music is one of the most popular as it showcases such a wide variety of
choices for everyone to listen to.
Anders Koppel is a current Danish composer while Carl Nielsen was a

internationally known composer from Denmark who made his mark in Danish
music. He is widely admired for the six symphonies and many other
accomplishments as well. There are many different forms of Danish music that
are associated with Denmark and one of those is Light Classical.
Many Danish films use classical pieces from Denmark music that the world would
recognize once they heard them. Jazz is also popular in Danish music. Valdemar
Eiberg formed the first jazz orchestra in 1923 in Denmark and recorded his
music, which many people think was the first known records of Danish music.
During the 1930’s Jazz music really became popular and that is still the case
today among the Denmark music loving population.
Danish music has a rock tone to it as well. Most people may not associate
Denmark with Rock bands, but the truth is it is one of the more popular music
styles in Denmark. Many bands have come from this country and seen great
success. They may not be household names in the United States or the world,
but in the Denmark music scene they are extremely popular. Another Danish
music genre that is immensely popular all over the country is pop music. The
Danish band Aqua had the biggest splash in and outside of Denmark music and
even though the vocalist is Norwegian that has not slowed their success one bit.
Folk music has long been a tradition in Denmark music and it has been passed
down through the ages and continues today. Most folk music in Denmark is
dominated by the fiddle and the accordion .Many different singers and bands still
play folk music today in the country as it is always in demand in the Denmark
music scene. Underground music is also something that has also taken off in the
Denmark music area recently. For the most part Danish music comes in all
varieties and tastes so you are bound to find something that you will enjoy. Most
people will tell you that Denmark music is some of the finest in the world and the
variety lends itself to that as well. If you ever travel to Denmark be prepared to
hear a wide variety of music so you should be able to find something that you like
without any problems at all.
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Danish jazz musician Chris Minh Doky in a live performance.
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Denmark's most famous classical composer is Carl Nielsen, especially remembered for his six
symphonies, while the Royal Danish Ballet specializes in the work of Danish choreographer August
Bournonville. Danes have distinguished themselves as jazz musicians, and the Copenhagen Jazz
Festival has acquired an international reputation. The modern pop and rock scene has produced a
few names of note, including MØ, Lukas Graham, D-A-D, Tina Dico, Aqua, The
Raveonettes, Michael Learns to Rock, Volbeat, Alphabeat, Safri Duo, Medina, Oh
Land, Kashmir, King Diamond, Outlandish, and Mew. Lars Ulrich is the first Danish musician to be
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Contents
 1Origins
 2Historical influences
 3Classical music
o 3.1Opera, song and concerts
o 3.2The Golden Age
o 3.3The Carl Nielsen era
o 3.4Contemporary composers
o 3.5Light Classical
 4Jazz, rock and popular music
o 4.1Jazz
o 4.2Rock
o 4.3Pop
o 4.4Electronic music
o 4.5Folk
 5Music schools
 6Music in everyday life
 7Popular venues
 8Festivals
 9See also
 10References
 11External links
 12Sources
Origins[edit]
The Brudevælte Lursfrom northern Zealand

The earliest traces of Danish music go back to the many twisting bronze-age horns or lurs which
some experts have identified as musical instruments. They have been discovered in various parts
of Scandinavia, mostly Denmark, since the end of the 18th century.[1][2]
Codex Runicus: Denmark's oldest musical notation

In his Gesta Danorum (c.1200), historian Saxo Grammaticus refers to the power that music had
over King Erik the Kind-Hearted. In the 13th and early 14th centuries, German minnesingers such as
Tannhäuser and Frauenlob sang in the Danish courts. The Codex Runicus (c.1300) contains a verse
written in runes with a non-rhythmic musical notation. The first line is Drømdæ mik æn drøm i nat(I
Dreamed Me a Dream Last Night). There is also evidence that English monks came to Denmark to
sing at a celebration commemorating St Canute, who died in 1086. In 1145, Lund
Cathedral received Scandinavia's first choir statues, and by 1330 it was one of the larger churches to
have an organ installed.[1]
Historical influences[edit]
Pratum Spirituale by Mogens Pedersøn(1620)

The greatest influence on the evolution of music in Denmark has certainly been the monarchy. At the
time of his coronation in 1448, Christian I engaged a permanent corps of trumpeters, and by 1519
the court had a corps of court singers and an instrumental ensemble as well. The collections of
works used by the chapel royal under Christian III in the middle of the 16th century were based on
Dutch, Italian, French and German masters. Christian IV spent considerable sums of money on
training local musicians and bringing foreign masters to Denmark. Mogens Pedersøn, one of his
Danish musicians who had studied in Venice under Giovanni Gabrieli, became one of Denmark's
most important composers of church music. His principal work Pratum spiritualewas a collection of
21 Danish hymns in five-part settings, a mass in five parts, three Latin motets and a number of
Danish and Latin choral responses. It was published in Copenhagen in 1620 and is still performed
today.[3]
Under the influence of Louis XIV of France, music for the theatre was established in Denmark during
the reigns of Frederik III and Christian V when lavish court ballets were performed. This soon led to
opera and the performance of Der vereinigte Götterstreit composed by Povl Christian Schindler on
Christian's birthday in 1689. Although it was a great success, there was little interest in opera after
the theatre caught fire a few days later causing 180 deaths.[4]
In 1569, shortly after the Reformation, Denmark's first hymn book, Thomesens Salmebog, was
published with music for the individual hymns.[1]
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly
regarded composer of the Baroque period. His organ works comprise a central part of the
standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and church services. But he is
most remembered for his vocal compositions. In his day Buxtehude was considered to be the
unrivalled master of his time.[5]
Classical music[edit]
Opera, song and concerts[edit]
Frederik IV opened a new opera house in Copenhagen in 1703, the first performance being an
opera by the Italian Bartolomeo Bernardi. Reinhard Keiser, the prolific opera composer
from Hamburg, presented his works in Copenhagen from 1721 to 1723. In 1748 Den Danske
Skueplads (the Danish Theatre) moved into a new building and in 1779 Det Kongelige
Kapel (the Royal Danish Orchestra) became a permanent attachment.[6]
Christoph Weyse: Song composer

Pietro Mingotti, from Venice, who had formed an opera company was invited to Copenhagen
by Queen Louise in 1747. His members included Christoph Willibald Gluck and Giuseppe Sarti. In
1756, Sarti provided the music for the first syngespil which, in the early 1790s, became established
as a popular national genre with Høstgildet (the Harvest Celebration) and Peters Bryllup (Peter's
Wedding). Both were composed by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz.
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, from Altona, who was a pupil of Schulz, is remembered above all
for his Danish songs, hymns and carols, which remain popular to this day. But he also composed
religious music, piano pieces, and symphonies.[7]
Friedrich Kuhlau wrote Elverhøj (Elves' Hill) (1828), which contains the music for Kong Kristian stod
ved højen mast, a Danish national anthem. Elverhøj is considered to be the first Danish national play
and has been performed in Denmark more than any other play. Kuhlau was also a pianist who
brought Beethoven's piano music to Denmark.[8]
Schulz and Kunzen both gained importance as a result of their influence as chief conductors at
the Royal Theatre. They brought the best of European music to Danish audiences. Weyse and
Kuhlau contributed not only to orchestral and chamber music, but also to the popular repertory,
Weyse with secular and religious songs and Kuhlau with chamber music suitable for amateur
musicians.[9]
Another successful composer and conductor in the mid-20th century was Emil Reesen (1887–1964),
who is remembered above all for his highly successful operetta Farinelli (1942), which is still popular
today.[10][11]
Opera has continued to figure prominently on the Danish music scene, thanks in part to
the Copenhagen Opera House, which was opened in the year 2000. Although the majority of
performances cover the works of the well-known European composers, Danish operas are also
included from time to time. In 2010, with the involvement of the ambitious young artistic
director Kasper Bech Holten, there were performances of Poul Ruders' new work Kafka's Trial, while
in recent years works by both John Frandsen and Bent Sørensen have been part of the repertoire as
well.[12]
The Golden Age[edit]
Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874)

The 19th century saw the emergence of a number of Danish composers inspired by Romantic
nationalism. Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1900) who, apart from opera and ballet music,
contributed to song and the piano repertory. From 1843 until his death, he was the organist at
the Church of Our Lady. His works are not only romantic but generally inspired by the old Nordic
legends.[13]
Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874) was employed as the first music director at the Copenhagen
amusement park Tivoli when it opened in 1843. Here he had a platform for presenting a large foreign
and Danish repertory, including his many waltzes and galops. In 1839, he had heard a Viennese
orchestra play music by Johann Strauss, after which he composed in the same style, eventually
earning the nickname "The Strauss of the North".[14] One of his most popular pieces, associated with
Tivoli, is Champagnegaloppen (the Champagne Galop), which starts with the happy sound of a
champagne cork popping. It has been used in several Danish films including Reptilicus (1961),
and Champagnegaloppen (1938).
Niels W. Gade (1817–1890) participated in the development of Musikforeningen (the Music Society)
which had been founded in 1836 with the purpose of extending and improving the understanding of
classical music. He became its conductor in 1850, and under his management a number of
masterpieces of choral music were given their first performance in Denmark, among them Bach's St.
Matthew Passion in 1875.[15]
Marie Taglioni in Bournonville's La Sylphide

At the conservatory in Copenhagen he helped teach future generations, including Edvard
Grieg and Carl Nielsen. In the spirit of Romantic nationalism, he composed eight symphonies, a
violin concerto, chamber music, organ and piano pieces and a number of large-scale cantatas,
among them Elverskud (The Elf King's Daughter), the most famous Danish work of its kind.[16]
Another major contributor to the Golden Age was August Bournonville (1805–1879), the
renowned ballet master and choreographer. From 1830 to 1877, he was the choreographer at
the Royal Danish Ballet, for which he created more than 50 ballets admired for their exuberance,
lightness, and beauty. He created a style which, although influenced by the Paris ballet, is entirely
his own. Bournonville's best-known works are La Sylphide (1836), Napoli (1842), Le
Conservatoire (1849), The Kermesse in Bruges (1851) and A Folk Tale (1854). He drew on a
number of different composers including Holger Simon Paulli and Niels Gade. The ballets are widely
performed today, not only in Denmark but worldwide, especially in the United States.[17]
The Carl Nielsen era[edit]
As a result of problems with Germany, Denmark's attitude during the first half of the 20th century
became nationalistic and introverted. The two leading figures, Carl Nielsen and Thomas
Laub revived interest in the purer music of earlier periods such as the Renaissance.[9]
Carl Nielsen(1865–1931)
 Carl Nielsen (1865–1931), now an internationally recognized composer, was the dominant figure
in Danish music and musical life from the end of the 1890s until well into the 20th century. He
had grown up in a small village on Funen but, by performing with folk musicians as a child and
as a bugler in the army, he was able to enter the music conservatory in Copenhagen in 1884. By
the time he took over Gade's role around 1900, Denmark's music scene was firmly established
with strong popular interest and support.[18] Nielsen's orchestral music, including six symphonies
and concertos for flute, violin, and clarinet, is widely performed. Indeed, the success of his First
Symphony when it was played in Berlin in 1896 paved the way for his growing reputation.
The Third Symphony (1912), which contains wordless vocal solos, was performed in
the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Finland within the first two years. The Fourth
Symphony (1916) featuring a battle between two sets of timpani is the one which has been most
widely recorded.[19]Maskarade (1906), a three-act opera based on the play by Ludwig Holberg, is
regarded as the Danish national opera.[20] Nielsen also composed the opera Saul og
David (1901) which offers marvellous chorus scenes. Another important choral work is the
cantata Hymnus amoris (1896), a beautiful composition for choir and orchestra.[18] He is also
remembered for the incidental music he wrote for Adam Oehlenschläger's play Aladdin as well
as for the songs he set to music, many of which are still popular in Denmark.
 Thomas Laub (1852–1927), an organist, was devoted to reintroducing the old Protestant hymn
tunes which had been forgotten or altered over the years. He published a number of important
works including Kirkemelodier (Church Melodies) (1890), Udvalg af Salme-Melodier i
Kirkestil (Selected Hymn Tunes in the Church Style) (1896 and 1902), Dansk Kirkesang (Danish
Church Song) (1918) and Musik og Kirke (Music and Church) (1920). Laub also wrote folk song
music and together with Carl Nielsen published En Snes danske Viser (A Set of Danish Folk
Songs) (1917).[21]
 Rued Langgaard (1893–1952), a late-Romantic composer, was not fully recognized until 16
years after his death. He was inspired by his conviction that music had a spiritual power and was
therefore important for mankind. He was a prolific composer, completing over 400 works
representing over 50 hours of music. His Symphony No. 1 Klippepastoraler (Rock Pastorals) is
in the late-romantic style, reminiscent of Anton Bruckner while Symphony No. 10 Din Torden-
Bolig (Your Dwelling of Thunder) is also majestic, but more in the style of Richard Strauss[22]
Contemporary composers[edit]
In addition to those specialising in rock, folk and electronic music, Denmark has a number of
contemporary composers who have been successful in writing classical music covering a variety of
genres. Among the most successful are:
 Per Nørgård (born 1932) has composed works in all major genres: six operas, two ballets, seven
symphonies and other pieces for orchestra, several concertos, choral and vocal works, an
enormous number of chamber works, ten string quartets and several solo instrumental works.
The conductor Sergiu Celibidache once precisely expressed the potential of Nørgård’s large-
scale, faultless creation: "Only the mind of a new time in the new millennium will be able to
understand the scope of Nørgård’s music."[23]
 Anders Koppel (born 1947) has had an extremely versatile career in rock, classical and world
music. He has composed the music for eight ballets with the Danish Dance Theatre, 50
theatrical plays and for more than 100 movies.[24]
Frederik Magle
 Poul Ruders (born 1949) is known internationally for the music he has written for choir, chamber
ensemble, and solo instruments, which are frequently performed outside Denmark. It is however
is orchestral music, especially his symphonies and concertos, which is most appreciated in
Denmark.[25]
 Hans Abrahamsen (born 1952) is one of the most notable contemporary composers whose
works have evolved from his initial New Simplicity style leading to his internationally
successful Nacht und Trompeten.[26]
Other notable contemporary composers include Bent Sørensen, and Pelle Gudmundsen-
Holmgreen (both winners of the Nordic Council Music Prize), and Frederik Magle (compositions for
the Danish Royal Family).
Light Classical[edit]
One of the most universally known pieces of Danish music is the Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane' (1925)
composed by Jacob Gade. It has been used in countless films, such as the classic Danish sex
comedy I Tvillingernes tegn (1975), where it is the centerpiece of a big nude dancing production
number set in the 1930s,[27] and Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried (2000), with Johnny Depp playing
a gypsy in the 1920s.[28]
A special position is occupied by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (b. 1924), who has written music for Danish
films and television series such as Matador in his highly individual style. The signature tune Alley
Cat quickly won international success in the same class as Gade's tango.[29]
Jazz, rock and popular music[edit]

Jazz[edit]
Main article: Danish jazz
The Marilyn Mazur Group playing in Warsaw in 2008

Jazz has been one of Denmark's most important musical developments over the past century. Its
origins can be traced to Valdemar Eiberg's band in 1923 and their recordings the following year. But
it was in 1925, when Sam Wooding brought his orchestra to Copenhagen that the Danish music
scene was properly introduced to the genre. Early Danish jazz was influenced by three classically
trained musicians: Erik Tuxen(1902–1957), who created one the country's first jazz bands, Bernhard
Christensen (1906–2004), a composer of both jazz and classical music, and Sven Møller Kristensen
(1909–1991) who wrote lyrics for Christensen as well as a number of books about jazz.[30]
As jazz became more popular in the 1930s, one of the rising stars was the talented violinist Svend
Asmussen (1916–2017) who made his first recordings in 1934 at the age of 18 and was still playing
with his quartet more than 70 years later.[31]
During the German occupation in the 1940s, jazz was discouraged but many musicians continued to
perform while others escaped to Sweden, including drummer Uffe Baadh. Indeed, the period
became known as "The Golden Age of Jazz" as the number of concerts in hotels and restaurants
increased and the number of recordings rose from about 180 in 1935–1939 to over 650 from 1940 to
1945.[32]
Jakob Bro
Following World War II, Danish jazz musicians began to split into an older guard, which maintained
the style of older New Orleans jazz, and newer musicians who favored the bebop style of Charlie
Parker and Dizzy Gillespie that was then emerging in America. The former were represented by
musicians such as pianist Adrian Bentzon, trombonist Papa Bue, and trumpeter Theis Jensen, while
the latter included saxophonist Max Brüel, bassist Erik Moseholm, and trumpeter Jørgen Ryg.[1]
In the early 1960s, when there was something of a revival, the Jazzhus Montmartre opened in
Copenhagen, reflecting the atmosphere of clubs in Paris and New York City. It soon became a major
venue for both Danish and American artists. Many Americans moved to Denmark including Stan
Getz, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Lee Konitz and many others. The American pianist Kenny
Drew formed a trio with drummer Alex Rieland bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen which
became a staple at Jazzhus Montmartre.[33] Danish musicians also began to explore free jazz in the
1960s with saxophonist John Tchicai the most prominent proponent. In parallel, a more mainstream
wing evolved, including saxophonist Jesper Thilo.[1]
As rock music became more popular in the 1970s, jazz's popularity waned, but it continues to be
supported in venues such as the Copenhagen Jazzhouse and the Jazz Club Loco, as well as at the
annual Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Danish jazz musicians continue to find unity in diversity,
exploring a wide range of feelings and genres and bringing new strength to contemporary jazz as it
unfolds in all its shapes and sizes.[33] Prominent jazz musicians today include Carsten Dahl, Jørgen
Emborg, Thomas Clausen, Fredrik Lundin, Marilyn Mazur, Mads Vinding, Ib Glindemann, Jakob
Bro, Chris Minh Doky and his brother Niels Lan Doky.[34]
The organization JazzDanmark,[35] funded by the Danish government, works to promote jazz in
Denmark and Danish jazz abroad.
Rock[edit]
Main article: Danish rock
Anne Linnet at a concert in Odense, 2006
In the early days of rock and beat, some Danish artist quickly adapted this new type of music with
success. Bands like Peter og Ulvene, Sir Henry and his Butlers, The Beefeaters and later
on Steppeulvene (the Steppenwolves), Alrune Rod and Savage Rose were among the popular
bands in Denmark throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Still, Danish rock and pop music in those
days resembled more of German schlager than American or British rock.
The Danish rock scene thrived in the 1970s when groups drew on trends in the United States and
Britain. Many consider their style to be Danish although this seems mainly to be due to the language
of the songs and the way they fit into the national agenda. The most successful have
been Gasolin', Shu-Bi-Dua, Sebastian, Anne Linnet, Gnags, TV-2, and more recently Magtens
Korridorer. Kim Larsen who had played with Gasolin' went on to become a very successful solo artist
in his own right while Sebastian has composed a number of successful musicals for theatre and film.
The versatile Anne Linnet is still popular in Denmark today.[36]
Until fairly recently, few Danish rock groups had been successful outside Denmark. An exception
was D-A-D (formerly Disneyland After Dark) who had a hit with Sleeping My Day Away in the early
1990s.[37] Today, however, with the Music Export Denmark initiative, several rock bands are doing
increasingly well internationally. These include Mew, Iceage, Volbeat, Kashmir, The Raveonettes,
and Blue Van.[38][39]
The Raveonettes, Roskilde Festival, 2005

Other rockartists worth mentioning are The Kissaway Trail, Junior Senior, Nephew, Carpark
North, Saybia, VETO, Swan Lee, Dúné, Volbeat and Dizzy Mizz Lizzy which has just had a
revival.[40]
Famous Danish rock and metal musicians include Lars Ulrich, the drummer and co-founder
of Metallica, Mike Tramp, the vocalist and co-songwriter of White Lion, and Kim Bendix Petersen,
aka King Diamond, vocalist of Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate and the eponymous King
Diamond.
The annual Roskilde Festival is held in Danish city of Roskilde. The festival is the second-largest in
Europe with ticket sales normally running from 70,000 to 100,000. The festival has featured many
prominent artists (mainly rock), such as Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Slipknot, Kings of Leon, U2, Bob
Dylan, Black Sabbath and Green Day, and there has also been an emphasis on world music,
alternative genres and Danish music at the festival. In 2000, the festival suffered a terrible accident
during a Pearl Jam concert where nine people were crushed by the wild crowds, making security a
primary issue of the following festivals. The festival has suffered no further incidents of the kind.[41]
Pop[edit]
Medina – one of the most successful Danish artists.
Thomas Helmigperforming in Aalborg, 2009

Tina Dico in concert in Det Musiske Hus in Frederikshavn in February 2008
As with rock music, the Danish pop scene has started to benefit from the Music Export Denmark
initiative.
 Thomas Helmig is one of the most popular Danish pop artists who has won awards at
the Danish Music Awards(DMA) eight times.[42]
 Tina Dico is a Danish singer-songwriter who has won several prizes including awards at
the Danish Music Awards in 2004 and 2006. Her most famous songs are "Welcome Back
Colour", "Count To Ten", "Copenhagen", "Warm Sand", "Nobody's Man", "Sacre Coeur", "Open
Wide", "On The Run" and "Moon To Let". She is also very popular in the UK when she
collaborated with the band Zero 7 in 2003 with whom she also made the popular song "Home".
Tina is also known as the owner of her own record label called Finest Gramophone.
 Medina is currently one of the most successful artists of this country and she is known in most
European countries, US and Mexico. She sings both in Danish and English. She has made
about ten singles in the top 2 of Denmark. Most famous is the song Kun for Mig ("Only for me"),
other popular songs are Ensom, Vi to, For altid,Velkommen Til Medina,Synd For Dig,Kl.
10, Addiction and Gutter.
 Karen Marie Ørsted, better known by her stage name MØ, is a Danish singer-songwriter signed
to Sony Music Entertainment. She has also featured in hit-singles including "Lean On", which
charted number one in over 20 countries, and "Cold Water", which features Canadian
singer Justin Bieber.
 Oh Land is a Danish singer-songwriter with great success in Europe and the US. She had her
TV debut on the Late Show with David Letterman with her song "Son of a Gun" in 2010. She has
been touring around the US with stars like Katy Perry in 2011. Another of her popular songs
is White nights released in 2011.
 Aura is another successful singer who in 2010 reached the top of the charts in Germany and
was doing well in the rest of Europe.[39]
 Infernal are a popular group who have progressed in Europe with singers Lina Rafn and Paw
Lagermann. Their most successful hits have been "From Paris to Berlin" and "Ten Miles".[43]
 Agnes Obel is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album, Philharmonics, was released by PIAS
Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Denmark, Norway, Germany and other European
countries.[44] Since February 2011, Philharmonics is certified double platinum.[45] In November
2011, Obel won at the Danish Music Awards five prizes for : Best Album of the Year, Best Pop
Release of the Year, Best Debut Artist of the Year, Best Female Artist of the Year and Best
Songwriter of the Year.[46] Her fost famous song is "Riverside".
 Fallulah is the stage name of a Danish young pop music songwriter and singer. She is known for
her debut single I Lay My Head which was the prequel to the album The Black Cat
Neighbourhood. Other popular songs from this album are Give Us a Little Love and Out of It.
Fallulah's music can be accounted to the pop music genre but according to her own statements
is a mix of indie rock and Balkan beats, which adds a hint of folklore to her productions.
 Rasmus Seebach is a Danish singer-songwriter who sings in his mother tongue language. He
has had great success in the Scandianvian countries. Among his most successful songs are Lidt
i fem, Natteravn and I mine øjne.
 Alphabeat, have been successful in the UK with top 20 hits Fascination, 10,000 Nights and The
Spell.[47]
 Burhan G is a Danish R&B and pop singer, songwriter and producer of Kurdish/Turkish origin. In
2010 he was certified platinum in Denmark for his album Burhan G. He has had many singles
including two No. 1 hits, Mest ondt featuring Medina and Tættere på himlen featuring Nik & Jay.
 Nik & Jay is a popular Danish R&B/hip hop/pop duo which has produced many popular singles
such as Hot! in 2003 and Mod solnedgangen from
Popular in the early and mid 90s was the pop-soft rock band Michael Learns to Rock, whose brand
of ballads made it a popular act in many Asian markets,[48] selling nearly 9 million records in
Asia.[49] A Danish band with a big impact outside of Denmark is the Europop group Aqua, whose hit
"Barbie Girl" helped the band sell a total of 15 million albums and 6 million singles.[50]
Denmark also participates in the annual Eurovision Song Contest, and holds its own Dansk Melodi
Grand Prix competition to select the song that will represent Denmark in the Eurovision contest.
Denmark has won the Eurovision Song Contest three times: first with Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann's
"Dansevise" in 1963; the second with Brødrene Olsen's (Olsen Brothers) "Fly on the Wings of Love"
(from the Danish Smuk Som Et Stjerneskud, literally "Beautiful as a shooting star") in 2000. And
finally in 2013, Emmelie de Forest with Only Teardrops scored 281 points at Malmö, winning the
contest with a margin of 47 points over Azerbaijan. Denmark therefore hosted the Eurovision Song
Contest 2014 in Copenhagen. [51]
The winners of the 2010 Melodi Grand Prix, Christina Chanée and Tomas N'evergreen with "In a
Moment Like This" were already doing well in Eastern Europe by mid-March as their song became
the most popular download in several countries.[52]
Some hit songs of Danish origin have become international hits after being covered by foreign
artists. Vengaboys covered The Walkers' "Shalala Lala", Jamelia covered Christine Milton's
"Superstar", Shayne Ward covered Bryan Rice's "No Promises" and Celine Dion covered Tim
Christensen's "Right Next to the Right One". Different covers of Rune's "Calabria" have also been
international hits.
Electronic music[edit]
Safri Duo performing in Aarhus, 2005

Else Marie Pade was a Danish pioneer in electronic music as early as the 1950s. She knew and
worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen and has continued to make appearances
on the Danish electronica scene well into the new millennium. With his Coma parties, Kenneth
Bager brought acid house to Denmark in 1988 and was active in building a Danish club scene,
moving venues from the discothèques to deserted factories and basements.[53][54] The most
successful Danish electronic musician internationally is Trentemøller[55] while from a very early
age Mike Sheridan has achieved success and been labelled a name of the future.[56] In the more
mainstream part of the genre, Safri Duoalso experienced international success with their mixture of
tribal sound and electronica; also in the electronic scene adding elements of string and brass
instruments is the indie folk/electronic four-piece Efterklang.
A leading Danish venue for electronic music is Culture Box in Copenhagen which is subsidised by
the Ministry of Culture as a regional music venue, enabling it to keep a high artistic profile.[57] The
Strøm and Copenhagen Distortion festivals are also dedicated to the capital's electronic and club
music scene.[58][59]
Jesper Kyd is a famous Danish video game composer, who has been incorporating sounds of dark
ambient, electronic and symphonic music into his music and has won many awards.
Martin Jensen with the UK hit "Solo Dance".
Folk[edit]
Main article: Danish traditional music
Sebastian performing with Eivør Pálsdóttir at Tønder in 2006

Traditionally, Danish folk music has relied on a fiddle and accordion duo but, unlike
its Scandinavian neighbours, Danish fiddlers almost always play in groups with few solo
performance. Danish bands also tend to feature the guitar more prominently than the other Nordic
countries.[60]
Fiddle and accordion duos play generally rhythmic dance music, local versions of the Nordic folk
dance music. The oldest variety is called pols, and it is now mostly found on Fanø with variants such
as Sønderhoning from Sønderho.[60]
The first systematic collection of popular folk songs, some of which go back centuries, was
undertaken by the folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen (1843–1929). These important sources
were then transferred to the Danish Folklore Archives, established in 1904. The popular dance
music tradition was continued into the 20th century by musicians such as the violinist Evald
Thomsen (1913–93).[61]
Lars Lilholt
Danish traditional music experienced a renaissance when the Anglo-American folk song wave hit
Denmark around 1970. Among the prominent soloists, often composing new songs, were Sebastian,
Poul Dissing and Niels Hausgaard. The successful Lars Lilholt Band led by the violinist Lars
Lilholt combines the folk music tradition with rock. A new and refreshing combination of techno
music and medieval ballads has been provided by the group Sorten Muld since their first recording in
1996.[61]
The formation of the Danish Folk Council to actively promote folk music both at home and abroad
has helped raise the profile.[62] Curiously, Danish folk music received its biggest boost from the home
chart success of Sorten Muld, who used acoustic and electric instruments and electronica on old
songs to create something very contemporary on its best-selling albums. Some of the most well-
known artists in recent years include Harald Haugaard and Dreamers' Circus. [60]
Music schools[edit]
As part of the reform of Danish municipalities in 2008 it was established by law that each of the 98
municipalities runs a music school. The first Danish music schools were formed in the 1930's with
inspiration for Germany. From 1991 Musikloven - Law on Music - has had a chapter on music
schools. According to the law the purposes of the music schools are to develop and support the
musical talents and knowledge and to enhance music in the local communities. The primary goal is
to engage with children and youth (0-24 years), but activities for adults are also possible. The
financing of the music schools are divided among state, municipality and students (or parents of
students).
Music in everyday life[edit]

Music is an important part of the lives of most Danes. One of the carefully observed traditions is to
include music at celebrations at large, including family oriented ones such as wedding parties,
birthdays and anniversaries. Indeed, it is not only common to engage one or more musicians for
dancing but it is usual for the guests to write songs, normally to well-known traditional tunes, in
honour of those to be celebrated.[63]
There is also a popular tradition of choir singing. There are hundreds of amateur choirs throughout
Denmark, usually specialising in traditional Danish songs or folk music.[64]
Denmark has two national anthems, which are widely performed. Der er et yndigt land (There is a
Lovely Country) is sung loudly and enthusiastically at sporting events and is the most popular. Lyrics
are by the Danish poet Adam Oehlenschläger and music by Hans Ernst Krøyer. Kong Kristian stod
ved højen mast (King Christian stood by tow'ring mast), is sung on official occasions when the royal
family is represented. Lyrics are by Johannes Ewald while music was probably written by Ditlev
Ludwig Rogert and can be heard in the final tableau of Elverhøj.[9][65]
Popular venues[edit]
Copenhagen Opera House

In recent years, there have been two important developments for the Danish music scene. The first
was the opening of the Copenhagen Opera House in 2005 where ever since full houses have
applauded the performances of the great European operas and some of Denmark's more recent
contributions.[12] The other was the completion of Danmarks Radio's Concert Hall in 2009 where the
national broadcaster not only presents its orchestral music but also choirs, jazz, rock and pop.[66]
Other important venues for music include:
 The Old Stage of the Royal Danish Theatre in the centre of Copenhagen where in particular
performances of the Royal Danish Ballet can be seen.[67]
Tivoli Concert Hall
 The Tivoli Concert Hall in the Tivoli Gardens where orchestral music, singers, jazz and other
musical events feature in the programme every summer, frequently with the participation of
the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra.[68]
 Det Ny Theater in Copenhagen specializes in Danish productions of musicals.[69]
 Musikhuset Aarhus, the Concert Hall of Aarhus, presents a wide variety of classical and popular
music including singing and dance.[70]
Festivals[edit]
See also: List of festivals in Denmark § Music
Music festivals are plentiful throughout the country and are very popular, with more than 130,000
attendees at Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Northern Europe and around 300,000
partygoers to Copenhagen Distortion street festival. Many smaller recurring music festivals of all
genres are held throughout and on all times of the year. This includes the Copenhagen Jazz
Festival, the traveling Grøn Koncert, Tønder Festival, Aalborg Opera Festival, Thy Chamber Music
Festival and Skagen Festival, among many others.[71][72]
Signe: Our system goes
Elementary school: 5-15 years
(Optional) 10th grade: 15-16 years
High school: 15/16-18/19
And then college
10 weird Danish superstitions
From bird droppings to the special combination of the numbers 7, 9 and 13, here are ten
superstitions held by modern-day Danes.
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Like many items on this list, the belief that a broken mirror brings bad luck is hardly unique to the Danes.
In fact, this one has been around since ancient Romans, the very first people to make glass mirrors. They
believed that a mirror could capture one’s soul and thus an image distorted by a broken mirror would
also mean that the viewer’s very soul had been corrupted.
Photo: Jamiecat/Flickr
From bird droppings to the special combination of the numbers 7, 9

and 13, here are ten superstitions held by modern-day Danes.
« Start
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Coming to Copenhagen to spend a night in the best hotel in Northern

Europe? Don’t expect to stay in room 13. Like most Danish hotels, you
won’t find a room or 13 in Hotel D’Angleterre, where a spokesperson
told Religion.dk in 2013 that “everyone should have a good
experience when they stay with us and there are still people who don’t
think it’s fun to sleep in room 13”. And when those customers are
paying as much as 42,000 kroner a night to stay at D’Angleterre, the
hotel is wise to cater to their demands.
Photo: Colourbox
« Start
While many cultures have superstitions about the number 13, Danes have one that adds two extra
numbers to the equation. When a Dane says something like “I’m so glad my grandmother still
has her health” or “I think I really aced that job interview today”, they’ll follow it up by saying
“7-9-13 (syv-ni-tretten) and three knocks on wood – one for each number. Where does this
superstition come from? Well the science site Videnskab offers the “annoying answer” that it is
“a strange combination of lucky and unlucky numbers that were put together for a reason that no
one knows by unknown people.” Thanks a lot, that clears it right up.
Photo:
« Start
Most people are going to avoid walking under a ladder, not out of superstition but because of the
very rational fear that something might fall on their head. But for early Christians, the triangle
made by a raised ladder was seen to signify the Holy Trinity and to walk through it was basically
akin to pledging your allegiance to Satan. And speaking of things falling on your head…
Photo: Colourbox

Don't be grossed out if a bird relieves itself on your head. Instead,
embrace the superstition and just think of that small pile of wet bird
poop as a slimy bit of good luck.
Don't be grossed out if a bird relieves itself on your head. Instead,
embrace the superstition and just think of that small pile of wet bird
poop as a slimy bit of good luck.
According to a 2008 survey Gallup, 37 percent of Danes believe in the
existence of ghosts or spirits. And they don’t just believe they exist.
More than two thirds of those who said that ghosts and spirits are real
believe that they can be contacted. Spooky!
ccording to a 2008 survey Gallup, 37 percent of Danes believe in the
existence of ghosts or spirits. And they don’t just believe they exist.
More than two thirds of those who said that ghosts and spirits are real
believe that they can be contacted. Spooky!
Photo: Peter Thoeny/Flickr

On the topic of supernatural beings, small mythical creatures known
as nisser are quite popular in Denmark, especially around Christmas
time when they come to play tricks and eat your porridge. And lest you
think that no one takes could possibly take this seriously, we remind
you that this is the same country that recently earmarked 2.5 million
kroner for research into the 'under-earthlings' rumoured to inhabit the
island of Bornholm.
Photo: Colourbox
According to Religion.dk, one sneeze brings good luck while two sneezes presage a kiss
(hopefully when all the sneezing is done). A sneeze while tying one’s shoes however is bad luck
indeed.
Photo: Placbo/Flickr

The belief that spilling salt brings bad luck dates back to ancient Rome, with many suggesting
that the superstition has its origins in the belief that Judas Iscariot spilled salt at the Last Supper.
Other say the superstition stems from the fact that salt was once a very expensive and valuable
commodity and to spill it would have been a terrible waste. Regardless of which version you
believe, just remember that in the case of a spill, you should toss some salt over your left
shoulder.
Photo: Colourbox
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You’ve got to feel sorry for the black cat. Back in ancient Egypt, cats
were sacred and valued creatures. But by the Middle Ages, cats – and
particularly black ones – were seen as accomplices of devils and
witches. Even today, in a modern society filled with people who go
around watching cat videos on their phones, it’s considered bad luck if
a black cat crosses one’s path. Danes aren’t too afflicted by this
particular superstition however, with surveys showing that just around
one in four think that black cats bring bad luck.
Photo: Ivan Walsh/Flickr
https://www.thelocal.dk/galleries/others/10-weird-danish-
superstitions/10
On the trail of the Vikings
Follow this easily accessible route around the country and piece together the Viking
history of Denmark.
National Museum (Nationalmuseet), Copenhagen
A great place to start your Viking trail across Denmark. Learn all about
Denmark’s distant past and see priceless treasures such as Viking jewellery,
coins, weapons and rune stones. Afterwards, head to Restaurant Valhal in Tivoli
Gardens and sample their Viking menu, right at the heart of the theme park!
Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde
Next stop is Roskilde, only 30km south west of Copenhagen. The Viking Ship
Museum lies on beautiful Roskilde Fjord and contains five completely
reconstructed Viking longboats, built from salvaged wrecks from the Fjord itself.
See their film telling the fascinating story of the salvage and restoration.
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Trelleborg, Slagelse
Head south from Roskilde and you’ll come to the Viking stronghold of Trelleborg.
This impressive ring fortress is surrounded by a 134-metre-diameter wall. Walk
the site and visit ancient archaeological finds in the museum, next to a
reconstructed castle. In summer, you can enjoy a fantastic Viking market.
Ladbyskibet, Kerteminde
From Slagelse near Trelleborg, drive west over the Great Belt Bridge
(Storebæltsbro) to the island of Funen (Fyn). South of the town Kerteminde, you’ll
find Ladby Viking Museum. This museum is at the site of a Viking burial mound
found to contain a 20-metre-long Viking warship in which a Viking chieftan was
buried along with his most precious things.
Leijre
According to legend, the seat of power of ancient kings and sons of Odin, the
Scyldingas, was located in Lejre in the Iron and Viking Ages. Archaeological finds
testify to the fact that powerful men and women once lived here and their
presence can still be seen and experienced in many of Lejre’s tourist attractions.
Explore the remains of a unique stone ship in Gl. Lejre that is one of
Scandinavia’s largest. Also visit the the exhibition Lejre of the Mythical Kings
at Lejre Museum to learn more about the ancients.
You can also experience the adventure of ancient life hands-on. In Land of
Legends, history comes to life as you visit houses and settings from the Stone
Age, Iron Age, Viking times and the 19th century. The Maritime Research
Centre offers authentic long and short Viking excursions in some of the biggest
Vikings ships in the world.
Ribe’s Viking Museum

140km south west of Kerteminde in Jutland, you come to Ribe, Denmark’s oldest
town. You can sense the history all around in this picturesque country town. At
its Viking Centre, you can wander through a full-size reconstruction of Ribe’s
Viking market place. See their film, Odin’s Eye, which also takes you back to
Viking times.
Bork Viking harbour
From Ribe, head north west towards Ringkøbing Fjord. At its southern end, you’ll
find Bork Viking harbour. Learn all about life in the area in Viking times at the new
visitors’ centre and experience reconstructed Viking ships and houses.
Jelling rune stones and burial ground
Head east again from Ringkøbing Fjord and a few kilometres before the town
of Vejle, you’ll reach Jelling– one of the most important historical sites in
Denmark. Here you’ll find the incredible Viking rune stones, known as Denmark’s
birth certificate. They tell the story of Denmark’s birth as a nation, as well as King
Harald Bluetooth’s introduction of Christianity to the country.
Hobro Museum
From Jelling, head to Aarhus and further north to Hobro, around 135km away.
Here you can visit the Hobro Museum and its rich collection of prehistoric and
Viking archaeological finds. Close by, you can see the foundations of a large
Viking castle.
Lindholm Høje, Nørresundby
40km north of Hobro, towards Aalborg, you’ll come to Nørresundby and Lindholm
Høje – the biggest ancient burial ground in Scandinavia. The site dates back to
the Iron Age and Viking period and contains a staggering 700 graves, marked
with striking stone rings and patterns. There’s also a great museum for you to
visit.
Aggersborg, Løgstør
As a fitting end to this grand Viking journey, head to Aggersborg near the small
town of Løgstør. Here you can wander around the atmospheric ruins of a round
Viking castle fortress and absorb the thousand years of history you’ve collected
on your journey back to Viking Denmark.
1.
Tivoli Gardens
4.5
(30,039)
19th-century amusement park with rides
19th-century amusement park, open Apr-Sep, with antique roller coaster & live
entertainment program.
2. The Little Mermaid

3.8
(5,542)
Bronze sculpture & iconic landmark

Iconic bronze mermaid sculpture, by Edvard Eriksen, of a character from H.C.
Andersen's fairytale.
The Little Mermaid (statue)


Statue of The Little Mermaid at Langelinie
The Little Mermaid (Danish: Den lille Havfrue) is a bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, depicting
a mermaid. The sculpture is displayed on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade
in Copenhagen, Denmark.[a] It is 1.25 metres (4.1 ft) tall[2] and weighs 175 kilograms (385 lb).[3]
Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, the small and
unimposing statue is a Copenhagen icon and has been a major tourist attraction since its unveiling
in 1913. In recent decades it has become a popular target for defacement by vandals and political
activists.
Mermaid is among iconic statues that symbolize cities; others include: Manneken
Pis in Brussels,[4] the Statue of Liberty in New York and Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. In
several cases, cities have commissioned statues for such a purpose, such as with
Singapore's Merlion.
Contents
 1History
o 1.1Vandalism
 2Copies
 3Copyright issues
 4Censorship
 5In popular culture
 6See also
 7Notes
 8References
 9External links
History[edit]
Ellen Price as the Little Mermaid, Royal Danish Ballet, 1909.
Assembly of the Little Mermaid statue (Copenhagen, Langeline, 1913).

The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had
been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the
ballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksencreated the bronze statue,
which was unveiled on August 23, 1913.[5] The statue's head was modelled after Price, but as the
ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor's wife, Eline Eriksen, was used for the
body.[5]
The Copenhagen City Council arranged to move the statue to Shanghai at the Danish Pavilion for
the duration of the Expo 2010 (May to October), the first time it had been moved officially from its
perch since it was installed almost a century earlier.[3][6] While the statue was away in Shanghai an
authorised copy was displayed on a rock in the lake in Copenhagen's nearby Tivoli
Gardens.[7] Copenhagen officials have considered moving the statue several meters out into the
harbour to discourage vandalism and to prevent tourists from climbing onto it,[8] but as of May 2014
the statue remains on dry land at the water side at Langelinie.
Vandalism[edit]
Police technicians examine the damage to the statue after being blasted off its base the day
of September 10, 2003.
This statue has been damaged and defaced many times since the mid-1960s for various reasons,
but has been restored each time.
On April 24, 1964, the statue's head was sawn off and stolen by politically oriented artists of
the Situationist movement, amongst them Jørgen Nash.[1] The head was never recovered and a new
head was produced and placed on the statue.[1] On July 22, 1984, the right arm was sawn off and
returned two days later by two young men.[1][9] In 1990, an attempt to sever the statue's head left an
18 centimeters (7 in) deep cut in the neck.[1]
On January 6, 1998, the statue was decapitated again;[9][10] the culprits were never found, but the
head was returned anonymously to a nearby television station, and reattached on February 4. On
the night of September 10, 2003, the statue was knocked off its base with explosives and later found
in the harbour's waters. Holes had been blasted in the mermaid's wrist and knee.[11]
In 2004, the statue was draped in a burqa in a protest against Turkey's application to join the
European Union.[12] In May 2007, it was again found draped in Muslim dress and a head scarf.[13]
Paint has been poured on the statue several times, including one episode in 1963 and two in March
and May 2007.[9][14] On March 8, 2006, a dildo was attached to the statue's hand, green paint was
dumped over it, and the date March 8 were written on it. It is suspected that this vandalism was
connected with International Women's Day, which is on March 8.[1][8][15] The statue was found
drenched in red paint on May 30, 2017 with the message "Danmark [sic] defend the whales of the
Faroe Islands", a reference to whaling in the Faroe Islands (an autonomous country in the Kingdom
of Denmark), written on the ground in front of the statue.[16][17] About two weeks later, on June 14,
the statue was drenched in blue and white paint. "Befri Abdulle" (Free Abdulle) was written in front of
the statue, but it was unclear what this referred to.[18]
Copies[edit]
Aside from the statue on display, which is a replica of the original,[1] more than thirteen undamaged
copies of the statue are located around the world, listed by Mermaids of Earth,[19]including Solvang,
California; Kimballton, Iowa;[20] Piatra Neamţ, Romania;[20] Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), Spain; Seoul,
South Korea;[21] and a half-sized copy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.[22] The grave of Danish-American
entertainer Victor Borge includes a copy as well.[20] The Copenhagen Airport also has a replica of the
mermaid along with a statue of Andersen.
Some statues similar to The Little Mermaid are In Sicily. The first it placed in 1962 on the seafront
in Giardini Naxos, and measures about four meters high over a fountain.[23] A second always
portraying a mermaid Post on a depth of sea about 18 meters. Inside the Marine Protected Area of
Plemmiro of Siracusa.[24]
A copy of the statue forms the Danish contribution to the International Peace Gardens in Salt Lake
City. The half-size replica was stolen on February 26, 2010, but was recovered on April 7
abandoned in the park.[25]
Copyright issues[edit]
Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy, a statue similar to The Little Mermaid, in Vancouver
The statue is under copyright until 2029, which is 70 years after the 1959 death of the creator;
therefore several copies of the statue have provoked legal actions.[20] As of 2012, replicas of the
statue can be purchased on the internet, authorized for sale by the Eriksen family.[26]
A replica was installed in Greenville, Michigan in 1994 to celebrate the town's Danish heritage,[20] at
a cost of $10,000.[20] In 2009 the town was sued by the Artists Rights Society claiming the work
violated Eriksen's copyright, and asking for a $3,800 licensing fee.[20] At about 76 cm (30 in) in
height, the replica in Greenville is half the size of the original, and has a different face and
larger breasts as well as other distinguishing factors.[20] The copyright claim was later reported to
have been dropped.[27]
There are similarities between The Little Mermaid statue and the Pania of the Reef statue on the
beachfront at Napier in New Zealand, and some similarities in the little mermaid and Pania tales.
The statue of a female diver (titled Girl in a Wetsuit by Elek Imredy) in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada was placed there when, unable to obtain permission to reproduce the Copenhagen statue,
Vancouver authorities selected a modern version.[20]
Censorship[edit]
Social Democrat politician Mette Gjerskov tried to post a photo of The Little Mermaid on
her Facebook page but was initially told it had "too much bare skin or sexual undertones", and the
post was blocked; Facebook later rescinded the ban and approved the image for posting.[28]
3. Nyhavn
4.7
(1,020)
Canal and harbor
Nyhavn is a 17th-century waterfront, canal and entertainment district in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Stretching from Kongens Nytorv to the harbour front just south of the Royal
Playhouse, it is lined
4. Amalienborg
4.4
(8,294)
The Queen's winter residence, with tours

18th-century rococo complex of palaces, with a museum & marches/displays by royal
guards.
5. Freetown Christiania
Street art and art
Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania, is an intentional community and
commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.7 hectares in the borough of
Christianshavn in the Danish
6. Kronborg
4.5
(4,928)
16th-century castle with royal chambers

16th-century castle with banqueting hall & royal chambers, the model for Elsinore in
Hamlet.
7. Rosenborg Castle
4.5
(6,182)
17th-century palace & royal museum

Dutch Renaissance palace & gardens, including a museum housing the crown jewels,
with guided tours.
8. Christiansborg Palace
4.4
(2,742)
Tours of opulent royal palace & stables

Tours of the royal palace's lavish reception rooms & stables, plus 12th-century castle
remains.
9. Legoland Billund Resort
4.4
(14,475)
Theme park with rides & attractions

Roller coasters & family rides in amusement park with themed areas & miniature world
made from Lego.
10. Frederiksborg Castle

4.7
(3,366)
National history museum in former palace

Elegant lakeside palace donated to the country & now housing a museum of Danish &
royal history.
11. Rundetaarn
4.4
(6,716)
17th-century tower with observatory

17th-century tower with an observatory, planetarium, event hall & spiral ramp instead of
stairs.
12. Strøget
Famed pedestrian street lined with shops
Pedestrian boulevard known for its abundant shops at all price levels, cafes & a
Guinness museum.
13. City Hall Square, Copenhagen

4.2
(5,348)
Square used for concerts & celebrations

Large open space outside city hall used for concerts, cultural performances &
celebrations.
14. Frederik's Church

4.5
(822)
Rococo structure dubbed "Marble Church"

18th-century Lutheran church with the largest dome in Scandinavia & a Kierkegaard
statue in grounds.
15. Christianshavn
Hip cafe culture & Freetown Christiania
Christianshavn, an area of small islands, is known for its hip cafe culture and canals
lined with colorful houseboats. Hotspots include Copenhagen Street Food, for
international dining, and Freetown
16. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

4.5
(3,406)
Fine-art museum of sculpture & painting

Fine-art museum with antique Mediterranean sculptures, plus 19th-century French &
Danish works.
17. Kongens Nytorv
4.1
(3,494)
Landmark cobbled square dating to 1907

Landmark cobble-stoned square dating to 1907, containing a royal equestrian statue of
Christian V.
18. Egeskov Castle

4.5
(2,869)
16h-century moated castle & gardens

Turreted & moated, 16th-century castle with treetop rope course, gardens, mazes & a
playground.
19. Kastellet, Copenhagen

4.4
(850)
Star-shaped military fortress & ramparts

Star-shaped 17th-century fortress with ramparts & a museum, regular host to free
events & concerts.
20. Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen

4.6
(897)
Baroque edifice with a corkscrew spire

Baroque, 17th-century place of worship with a carillon & steps around the outside of the
spire.
21. Dyrehavsbakken
4.3
(6,684)
Amusement park with 16th-century origins

Forest venue combining rides & attractions for all ages, from thrill rides to carousels.
22. Møns Klint
4.7
(573)
Chalk cliffs & a modern science center

Chalk cliffs overlooking a beach, plus a modern science center with a 3D cinema &
fossil exhibits.
23. Copenhagen Opera House

4.6
(2,118)
Waterside home of the Royal Danish Opera

International opera company in a landmark harborfront building with a 1400-seat main
auditorium.
24. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

4.6
(4,451)
International art from 1945 to today

Waterside art museum & sculpture park with international works from 1945 to today &
temporary shows.
25. Viking Ship Museum
4.3
(763)
Ship, seafaring & boatbuilding displays

Museum of ancient & medieval maritime culture, including 5 Viking ships excavated at
Skuldelev.
26. National Museum of Denmark

4.4
(2,586)
Museum of Danish history & culture

18th-century mansion with collections and exhibitions on Denmark's history, people and
culture.
27. Copenhagen City Hall

4.4
(297)
Tours of an ornate 1905 council building

Guided tours of this 1905 building with richly decorated facade, housing Jens Olsen's
World Clock.
28. The Old Town

4.5
(5,344)
Open-air urban history & culture museum

Recreation of a market town from the time of Hans Christian Andersen, including 75
period houses.
29. Nyhavn
Canal and harbor
30. Gefion Fountain

4.5
(518)
Bronze fountain depicting Norse goddess
Bronze fountain completed in 1908, depicting Norse goddess Gefion plowing the sea
with 4 oxen.
31. Langelinie
4.3
(7,777)
Quayside pier & home of Little Mermaid

Quayside promenade, home to the famous Little Mermaid statue, as well as shops &
cafes.
32. Rosenborg Castle Gardens

4.5
(3,480)
Parkland with pavilions & formal gardens

Parkland & gardens, established in the 17th century, with lime-tree-lined paths &
pavilions.
33. Copenhagen Zoo
4.3
(7,786)
Tigers, elephants & polar bears

Established zoo with airy Norman Foster-designed elephant house & Arctic habitat for
polar bears.
34. Grenen
4.6
(2,155)
Elongated sandbar with a reef & wildlife

Natural sandbar stretching out from the mainland, featuring birds of prey & a reef.
35. ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

4.5
(3,991)
Modern art in vast contemporary venue

Huge art museum for 18th-century to contemporary Danish art, plus circular, panoramic
roof walkway.
36. North Zealand
Kronborg Castle & Louisiana Art Museum
North Zealand is the northern area of the Danish island of Zealand. Overlooking the
Øresund Strait in the city of Helsingør, Kronborg Castle provided the setting for
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Global
37. Jægersborg Dyrehave

4.6
(222)
1,000-acre deer park, forest & palace

Deer park popular with cyclists & riders spread over 1,000 acres with woodland & a
Baroque palace.
38. Danish Museum of Art & Design

4.3
(2,207)
Design museum housed in rococo building
Museum in 18th-century rococo building tracing history of Danish & international
industrial design.
39. National Aquarium Denmark

4.3
(6,565)
Contemporary aquarium for 20,000 animals

Huge, sleek, whirlpool-shaped aquarium with fresh & sea water wildlife, plus
educational displays.
40. National Gallery of Denmark

4.4
(1,214)
Danish & international art museum

Danish national gallery, with international collections, temporary exhibitions & kids'
activities.
41. Moesgaard Museum
4.7
(2,885)
Museum of human evolution & culture

Modernist museum sloping out of the ground & containing exhibits covering humans &
their ancestors.
42. Rubjerg Knude lighthouse

4.7
(1,420)
Lighthouse and cliff

Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse is located on the coast of the North Sea in Rubjerg, in the
Jutland municipality of Hjørring in northern Denmark. It was first lit on December 27,
1900. Construction
43. Slotsholmen
4.3
(10)
Historic islet with government buildings

52-acre island & center of Denmark government since the Middle Ages, filled with
historic buildings.
44. Visit Carlsberg
4.2
(1,249)
Beer and museum

Visit Carlsberg is a museum and event space in Copenhagen, Denmark.
45. Church of Our Lady

4.5
(336)
1800s edifice with iconic sculptures

CF Hansen's grand neoclassical cathedral, home to Thorvaldsen's statues of Christ &
the apostles.
46. Hammershus
4.6
(2,174)
Clifftop castle ruins & visitor center
Ruins of an imposing castle, built by the church in 1200, plus an exhibition center with
models.
47. Hans Christian Andersen Museum

4.0
(1,147)
Writer museum in house where he was born

Museum outlining the life & times of the great Danish author, Hans Christian Anderson,
& his works.
48. Fredensborg Palace

4.5
(590)
Royal palace from 1720 & Baroque gardens

A royal palace dating to 1720, with stuccoed, domed hall & French Baroque gardens
with sculptures.
49. Roskilde Cathedral
4.6
(917)
Lutheran cathedral with 39 royal graves

Imposing 12th-century, Gothic, brick cathedral with the graves of generations of kings &
queens.
50. Djursland
4.9
(9)
Cliffs, beaches, zoos, châteaus, and nature

Djursland is a 44 km × 33 km hilly lowland peninsula in Denmark at the entrance to the
Baltic Sea, between Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe. Djursland protrudes into
the Kattegat sea, as
Ole Kirk Christiansen

Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmarkand Norway. (Also known as
Harald Bluetooth Gormson or Harald I of Denmark) Bluetooth is an
anglicized version of Harald Blaatand, who was known for his
unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including now
Swedish Scania). Where does the computer term "Bluetooth" come from? Did
they name the system after the Viking kings?
Christian Pirke, Munich Germany
 My wife, who works as a naming consultant, tells me that it does come from a
viking king. The other obvious links from the name are blue from 'blue chip' and
tooth as it is software which binds together various hardware (I believe). When
coming up with names for products and companies, firms have to bear in mind
the fact that almost all words in the Oxford dictionary have already been
registered as domain names, hence the recent trend toward historical names,
Latin or the terrible made-up ones.
Paul Marston, New York, USA
 The Ericsson website states that the technology is named after Harald Bluetooth,
a Viking that promoted communication between Denmark and Norway. There is
a statue of him outside Ericsson HQ!
Serena Jackson, Bromley, UK
 Ericsson originally called their technology 'Bluetooth' after Harald Bluetooth, who
was king of Denmark between 940 and 981. During his rule, Denmark and
Norway were Christianised and united, so Ericsson used the analogy that he
"allowed greater communication between people" when naming their wireless
communication protocol.
Richard Thompson, Allerod, Denmark
 Yes. Apparently Bluetooth was a Danish King who was particularly good at
getting people to work together. Given that the Bluetooth wireless system is
aimed at helping people use their phones with PCs, printers and other gadgets, it
was felt to be an appropriate name.
Ean Davies, Guildford, UK
 I'm told that King Harald Bluetooth lived in Denmark between 910-940 AD, and
his name had nothing to do with a blue tooth. It means dark complexion which
was unusual for Vikings. Not only did Harald not fit the classic image physically,
he was a rather unusual Viking. The good King Harald brought Christianity to
Scandinavia and also "united" Denmark and Norway. Similarly modern bluetooth
technology 'unites' separate computers, machines and electronic gadgets.
Jonathan Gardner, London

 More important is this. Did Harald Bluetooth have blue teeth? If he didn't why was
he so called?
Alex Wills, Hong Kong, China
 The name 'Bluetooth' is the result of confusion between old Danish words and
modern ones. 'Blaa' is the modern Danish word for 'blue', but once meant 'dark
skinned'. 'Tan' once meant 'great man', and has been confused with 'tand', the
modern Danish word for 'tooth'.
Richard Thompson, Allerod, Denmark
 Bluetooth was named after a tenth-century king, Harald Bluetooth, King of

Denmark and Norway. (Also known as Harald Bluetooth Gormson or Harald I of
Denmark) Bluetooth is an anglicized version of Harald Blaatand, who was known
for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark (including now
Swedish Scania).
John Agha, Manchester, UK
 Bluetooth was the nickname of the chief design technologist, whose teeth had a
bluish cast due to the excessive amount of copper sulfate he brushed with. Yup,
we used to call him Harold Bluetooth Mudder.
Stutz Warner, Cardigan, US
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Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden,

and Janus Friis, from Denmark. The Skype software was created by
Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The first
public beta version was released on 29 August 2003.
Scandinavia is a group of countries in northern Europe that includes
Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The term is most often used
linguistically, to mean places that speak Scandinavian languages
(also called the North Germanic languages). ... Norway, Sweden and
some of Finland are on this peninsula.
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Scandinavia is a group of countries in northern Europe that
includes Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The term is most often used linguistically, to mean places
that speak Scandinavian languages (also called the North Germanic languages). The
Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish) are closely related, and many
Scandinavians are able to understand some of the other languages, with some difficulty.
The Scandinavian Peninsula is a large peninsula reaching west from northern Europe over the north
side of the Baltic Sea. Norway, Sweden and some of Finland are on this peninsula. However,
Denmark, but not Finland, is seen as part of Scandinavia in the ethic sense. This is
because Danish is a Scandinavian language but Finnish is not.
The term Nordic countries is sometimes used as a more correct geographical term, but the Nordic
countries include Norway, Sweden, Denmark (including the Faroe Islands), Finland and Iceland.
These five countries coordinate political and cultural activities through the Nordic Council. Denmark,
Sweden and Finland are also members of the European Union, but only Finland is part of
the eurozone, meaning that it uses the euroas its currency. The other Nordic countries still use their
own currencies, called krone or krona ("crowns"). Norway and Iceland, which are not members of the
EU, are members of NATO and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Only Denmark is a
member of both the EU and NATO.
The most common usage: the three monarchies Denmark, Norway and Sweden An extended
usage, including Finland, Svalbard, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
The Scandinavian Peninsula is very open and few people live in most parts of it. It is covered with
large forests of pine, birch, and spruce. The western and northern parts are mountainous; the
Scandinavian mountains are some of the oldest in the world. The tallest mountain
is Galdhøpiggen in Norway. Denmark (43,098 km2) is the smallest of the Scandinavian countries. It
is more densely populated, and most of the land is farmland. Sweden (449,964 km2) is the largest of
the Scandinavian countries. It has the most lakes, and the landscape ranges from plains in the south
to mountains in the west (along the border with Norway) to tundra in the north. The far north of
Scandinavia and Finland is called Lapland, where the Sami people live. Some of them still herd
reindeer as they have for centuries, but the Sami mostly live in a modernised society equal to that of
other Scandinavians.
People[change | change source]

The best-known stereotypes of Scandinavian people relate to the Vikings of the Middle Ages. The
Vikings from Sweden are best known as traders, traveling as far as what we now know
as Ukraine and starting trade routes to bring goods from the Middle East to Scandinavia. The
Vikings from Norway are best known as explorers, crossing the North Atlantic in their longships and
settling Iceland and Greenland. The Norwegian explorers even reached the east coast of what we
now call Canada, where they set up a colony, but it only lasted a few years.
The Vikings from Denmark, however, left the biggest mark on the English. Danish raiders attacked
England repeatedly and brutally, demanding payment that came to be called "Danegeld" (Danish
gold). The priests and bishops of churches along the eastern coast of England had a famous prayer,
"deliver us, O Lord, from the wrath of the Norsemen!" Much later, in the 19th century, Richard
Wagner and other people of the Romantic period (1800s) invented descriptions of ancient Germanic
culture in the opera and the other arts, often showing Vikings wearing furs and winged or horned
helmets and drinking from large horns.
History[change | change source]

During a period of Christianization and formation of states in the 10th–13th centuries, numerous
Germanic kingdoms were unified into three kingdoms:
 Denmark
 Sweden
 Norway
The three Scandinavian kingdoms joined in 1387 in the Kalmar Union under Queen Margaret I of
Denmark. However, Sweden left the union in 1523. Because of this, civil war broke out in Denmark
and Norway. The Protestant Reformation followed. When things had settled, the Norwegian Privy
Council was abolished—it assembled for the last time in 1537. A personal union, entered into by the
kingdoms of Denmark and Norway in 1536, lasted until 1814. Three sovereign successor states
have subsequently emerged from this union: Denmark, Norway and Iceland.
The borders between the three countries got the shape they have had since in the middle of the
seventeenth century: In the 1645 Treaty of Brömsebro, Denmark–Norway ceded the Norwegian
provinces of Jämtland, Härjedalen and Idre & Särna, as well as the Baltic Sea islands of Gotland
and Ösel (in Estonia) to Sweden.
The Treaty of Roskilde, signed in 1658, forced Denmark–Norway to cede the Danish provinces
Scania, Blekinge, Halland, Bornholm and the Norwegian provinces of Båhuslen and Trøndelag to
Sweden.
The 1660 Treaty of Copenhagen forced Sweden to return Bornholm and Trøndelag to Denmark–
Norway.
In the east, Finland was a part of Sweden since medieval times until the Napoleonic wars, when it
became part of Russia.
Nordic countries are a group of countries in Northern Europe.

These countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden,
Norway, and the territories of the Aland Islands and the Faroe
Islands. ... Scandinavia is a peninsula while the Nordic
countries are recognized states. The Nordic countries are
generally considered to refer
to Denmark, Finland,Iceland, Norway and Sweden, including their
associated territories (Greenland, theFaroe Islands and the Åland
Islands). Nordic countries
Nordic countries are a group of countries in Northern Europe. These countries

include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and the territories of the Aland Islands and
the Faroe Islands. Though often confused as such, Scandinavia is not equivalent to the Nordic
countries. Scandinavia is a peninsula while the Nordic countries are recognized states. Sweden and
Norway (and a small part of Finland) rest on the Scandinavian peninsula. Scandinavia and Finland
together belong to a larger peninsula, Fennoscandia. Finns speak a non-Germanic language.
Nordic countries have similar state, law and culture. Historically, Nordic countries have maintained
close connections. Nordic countries are primarily socialist democracies. Nordic countries have some
political co-operation, such as the Nordic council. Cooperation with a larger group, the European
Union, makes the Nordic cooperation even smaller.
Nordic countries have long, cold winters with warm days in the summer, but only a small part of
Northern Norway and approximately half of Iceland is arctic.
Of late, many Nordic countries have been facing issues with immigration, mainly Sweden. Their
relaxed immigration policy has allowed many Middle Easterners to seek refuge from their war-torn
countries there.
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While the term "Scandinavia" is commonly used for Denmark,

Norway and Sweden, the term "Nordic countries" is used
unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland,
including their associated territories (Svalbard, Greenland, the Faroe
Islands and the Åland Islands). What is the meaning of
Scandinavian country?
1. ( Placename) Also called: the Scandinavian Peninsula the
peninsula of N Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden. 2. (
Placename) the countries of N Europe, esp considered as a cultural
unit and including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and often Finland,
Iceland, and the Faeroes.
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2. Also called Scandina′vian Penin′sula. the peninsula consisting of Norway and Sweden.
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Why are they called the Scandinavian countries?

The reason Denmark, Norway and Sweden are known
a Scandinavian countriesis the Scandinavian peninsula, not the
other way around. ... The origin of the name is generally agreed to
come from the district known today as Scania in southern Sweden.
(Skåne in Scandinavian languages.)
What language is spoken in Scandinavia?
In historical linguistics, the North Germanic family tree is divided into
two main branches, West Scandinavian languages
(Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic) and East Scandinavian
languages (Danish and Swedish), along with various dialects and
varieties.
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The reason Denmark, Norway and Sweden are known a Scandinavian
countries is the Scandinavian peninsula, not the other way around. Today
only Norway and Sweden occupy this peninsula, but traditionally Denmark
used to have lands in southern Sweden. Until the age of the railroad, seas
and waterways connected rather than separated, so it was common to have
land on both sides of a strait. If we go further back in history, it seems that
the original homeland of the Danes was in southern Sweden, and they later
expanded into what is now Denmark, where the Jutes were already living.
The origin of the name is generally agreed to come from the district known
today as Scania in southern Sweden. (Skåne in Scandinavian languages.)
The name probably comes from Skathiney, the island of Skadi, which might
refer to the old Norse goddess Skadi or the identical word for harm,
damage. I favor the goddess hypothesis because of the similarity to the
peninsula Onsøy (Odin's island) not too far away in south-east Norway, an
island that later became connected to the mainland because the land has
been steadily rising after the north European glaciers melted. Either way,
the name was originally adopted in Latin as Scatinavia and later
Scadinavia; the first n in Scandinavia was introduced much later, probably
as a merger with the shorter name Scania/Skåne. (Skathiney -> Skaaney -
Skåne. The name was written Skaane in Danish and Norwegian into the
1800s.) Besides, Scandinavia just sounds better than Scadinavia, so it
stuck.
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What country is autonomous?

An autonomous area is defined as an area of a country that has a
degree ofautonomy, or has freedom from an external authority. It is
typical for it to be geographically distant from the country, or to be
populated by a national minority.Countries that
include autonomous areas are often federacies.
What is the minimum wage in Denmark?
The average minimum wage for all private and public sector
collective bargaining agreements is approximately DKK 110 ($20) per
hour, exclusive of pension benefits. The Danish "minimum wage" of
$20 or $21 is actually an average of all minimum wages across a
variety of sectors.Aug 12, 2015
Denmark is an expensive expat destination and the cost of living is
high, even by European standards. Eating out, utilities and petrol are
especially pricey. Luckily, salaries are relatively high to somewhat
balance out the high cost of goods and services in Denmark.
Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, is one of the most expensive cities in

the world and was ranked 14th out of 209 cities in the Mercer 2018
Cost of Living Survey. Life outside of Copenhagen is not quite as
expensive but is far from cheap.
The good news for expats in Denmark is that they can expect a very
high quality of life, especially for those with children, which might
make up for the high cost of living.
Cost of accommodation in Denmark
Accommodation will be responsible for a large percentage of expats’

monthly expenses in Denmark. Expats should consider the location of
their housing carefully, as this can often affect the price. In particular,
Copenhagen's small size along with its popularity means that
accommodation is scarce and expensive.
The cost of utilities is not usually included in the rental price so it's
important to budget for this additional expense. When searching for
somewhere to live, the cost of the initial deposit will be up to three
months' worth of rent.
Cost of transport in Denmark
Transport in Denmark can be reasonable if using the trains and buses,

but can also be very expensive if using taxis on a regular basis. Petrol
is also notoriously pricey, as is the cost of buying a car. On the other
hand, cycling and walking are popular and are both cost-effective
ways of travelling.
Cost of food in Denmark
Groceries tend to be on the expensive side in Denmark and expats

may experience 'sticker shock' the first time they venture into a Danish
grocery store. However, with careful budgeting it's possible to
minimise costs. Buying locally produced, seasonal goods and avoiding
imports as much as possible can also bring down expenses.
Cost of schooling in Denmark
The cost of education for EU citizens in Denmark is very low, as tuition

is completely free, though expats may have to pay for learning
materials such as textbooks and other miscellaneous items. For
children who are not EU citizens, schooling in Denmark can be very
expensive with international schools being particularly expensive.
Cost of living in Denmark chart
Prices may vary depending on product and service provider. The list
below shows average prices in Copenhagen for August 2018.
Accommodation (monthly rent)
One-bedroom apartment in city centre 9,500 DKK
One-bedroom apartment outside city centre 7,000 DKK
Three-bedroom apartment in city centre 16,000 DKK
Three-bedroom apartment outside city centre 12,000 DKK
Shopping
Dozen eggs 27 DKK
Milk (1 litre) 8 DKK
Rice (1kg) 14 DKK
Loaf of white bread 17 DKK
Chicken breasts (1kg) 74 DKK
Pack of cigarettes (Marlboro) 44 DKK
Eating out
Big Mac meal 72 DKK
Coca-Cola (330ml) 23 DKK
Cappuccino 38 DKK
Bottle of beer (local) 45 DKK
Three-course meal at a mid-range restaurant 300 DKK
Utilities/household (monthly)
Mobile call rate (per minute – mobile to mobile) 0.90 DKK
Internet (uncapped ADSL) 220 DKK
Utilities (average per month for small apartment) 1,400 DKK
Transportation
Taxi rate/km 16 DKK
City centre bus fare/train fare 25 DKK
Petrol/gasoline (per litre) 11 DKK

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Interesting facts about the Danish krone:

 Current Danish krone banknotes and coins

 Common Name: Knopsvane or Cygnus olor

 Habitat: Grasslands, swamp forests, river

 Main Prey: Aquatic insects, fish, and frogs.

 Skin Type: Feathers

 Average Length: upto 140 to 160 cm

 Average Weight: 5 – 13 kg (14 – 30 pounds)

 Average Speed: Top flight speed is 50 to 55 mph

 Current number: 500,000

 “Trinomen of Mute Swan” – The IUCN Red List of Threatened

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Constitution Day 2019 in Kingdom of DenmarkConstitution Day

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The National Constitutional Assembly, 1849

Also called Constitution Day

Significance Anniversary of the Danish constitution

Celebrations Speeches by politicians

Next time 5 June 2019

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Not to be confused with The Capital Region (Denmark).

Capital Region of Denmark

Largest city Copenhagen

• Chairman Sophie Hæstorp Andersen(Social

• Total 2,568.29 km2 (991.62 sq mi)

• Density 710/km2 (1,900/sq mi)

Time zone UTC+1 (CET)

• Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

- Total €110 billion ($132 billion)

- Per capita €61,600 ($74,000)

HDI (2017) 0.952[3]

The following hospitals are managed by the Capital Region of Denmark:

 Amager Hospital on the island of Amager, Copenhagen

Municipalities of Region Hovedstaden[edit]

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North North Jutland, the

Region Region Heino

Danmark (Den Copenhag 5,781,1 42,8 134.7 (Counties of

km². Ertholmene included in totals. Statistikbanken.dk/FOLK1A.

Total population and population growth of regions

Region Region Region Region Region

200 1,633,5 811,51 1,185,8 1,219,7 576,80

200 1,636,7 816,11 1,189,8 1,227,4 576,97

200 1,645,8 16,46 819,42 1,194,6 1,237,0 10,69 578,83

200 1,662,2 17,98 821,25 1,199,6 1,247,7 580,51

Region Region Region Region Region

201 1,680,2 19,11 820,56 1,200,2 1,253,9 579,62

201 1,699,3 15,20 819,76 −1,85 1,200,6 1,260,9 579,82

201 1,714,5 17,47 817,90 −1,54 1,201,3 1,266,6 579,99

201 1,732,0 17,33 816,35 1,201,4 1,272,5 580,27

201 1,749,4 18,72 816,72 1,202,5 1,277,5 581,05

201 1,768,1 21,04 820,48 1,205,7 1,282,7 10,55 582,63

Region Region Region Region Region

201 1,807,4 15,25 832,55 1,217,2 1,304,2 587,33

201 1,822,6 835,02 1,220,7 1,313,5 589,14

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