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		Danish literature -> Early Writings The earliest literature of Denmark is preserved in the runic carvings on nearly 275 stone monuments erected to the Vikings c.850-1050.
		Danish literature -> The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The Reformation stimulated religious polemic and satire as well as the literary use of the Danish language.
		Danish literature -> The Twentieth Century By 1900 a lyrical reaction was being led by the poet J. Jørgensen; impressionistic themes became important, but were never the sole fruit of Danish literary endeavor.
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	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Danish literature @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DANISH LITERATURE [Danish literature] the literature of Denmark.
		The earliest literature of Denmark is preserved in the runic carvings on nearly 275 stone monuments erected to the Vikings c.850-1050.
		Danish literature of the later Middle Ages, primarily in Latin, was formal and ecclesiastical; it included annals, chronicles, legends, and a few poems.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Danishli&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (630 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Danish Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Danish Language (Dansk), language belonging to the East Scandinavian branch of the North Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European languages.
		Danish is the official language, spoken by most of the population.
		Danish Literature, the entire body of literature written throughout Denmark, in Latin and German as well as in the Danish language.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Danish_Language.html (88 words)

	Norwegian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		None-the-less, his recognition as the initial great in Norwegian literature is well deserved, based on his recording Norse mythology in the form of the Younger Edda or Prose Edda, and the Elder Edda, a book of poetic language providing an important understanding of Norse culture prior to Christianity.
		Norwegian literature was virtually nonexistent during in the period of the Scandinavian Union and the subsequent Dano-Norwegian union (1387 - 1814).
		Although a side note to the mainstream of Norwegian literature, the literature which documents the experience of Norwegian emigrants to American is as important as the Norwegian immigrants became to the growing America of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norwegian_literature (1098 words)

	Denmark - Culture - Literature
		Ballads are the principal mediaeval literature in the vernacular.
		The language and forms of baroque literature are characterised by impressive rhetorical inventiveness and power, and they reveal an appetite for life that measures up to its stark celebration of the inconstancy of fortune and the certainty of death.
		Two institutions created the framework for the new literature: The Royal Theatre, which was founded in 1748 and became the central institution of manners and culture in Denmark right up to the second half of the 19th century, and the Society for the Furtherance of the Fine and Useful Sciences (founded 1759).
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap4/4-7.asp (5205 words)

	Literature
		The Danish drama tradition has its origin, and perhaps its only lasting peak, in the 25 comedies he created in a furious ecstasy of inspiration for the Lille Grønnegade Theatre (1722-1728) at a time when Danish stage performances were entirely new and unheard of.
		At the time of her Danish debut in 1935 with Seven Gothic Tales, published the previous year in the USA, Blixen was an alien figure in Danish literature, which in the 1930s was dominated by psychological and social realism.
		In Danish poetry the inspiration of Christensen and Højholt is seen for instance in the work of Pia Tafdrup (b.1952) and Søren Ulrik Thomsen (b.1956), who represent Post-Modernism in the cross field between poetry-oriented selfreflection and sensuous intimacy.
	www.um.dk /Publikationer/UM/English/FactsheetDenmark/Literature/html/chapter01.htm (2507 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Danish Literature
		The first significant Danish male homosexual writer (in the modern sense of the word) is Herman Bang (1857-1912), an important literary innovator of the impressionist style.
		Perhaps the greatest modern Danish literary figure associated with homosexuality is the eccentric, cosmopolitan, and bilingual writer Karen Blixen (1885-1962).
		Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen was probably bisexual in orientation, though he may well have remained a virgin.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/danish_lit.html (744 words)

	Frederick Delius and Danish Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He began to read Scandinavian literature, which was then undergoing an exciting development (the "modern breakthrough" described by Georg Brandes), and among his early attempts at composition are songs to texts by H.C. Andersen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
		But if it was the magnificent Norwegian landscape that, understandably, first attracted Delius and aroused his interest in the Scandinavian languages, it was the literature of Denmark that came to have greatest importance for his artistic development.
		His first Danish "collaborator", as early as 1885, was naturally H. Andersen ("To brune øjne"), followed, almost equally naturally, by Holger Drachmann (Sakuntala, for tenor and orchestra) in 1889.
	users3.ev1.net /~wbthomp/edansklitt.htm (580 words)

	Danish literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The earliest literature of Denmark is preserved in the runic carvings on nearly 275 stone monuments erected to the Vikings c.850–1050.
		A transcendent figure in Danish literary culture was N. Grundtvig; both he and Oehlenschläger influenced the poet and novelist Bernhard Ingemann.
		By 1900 a lyrical reaction was being led by the poet J. Jørgensen; impressionistic themes became important, but were never the sole fruit of Danish literary endeavor.
	www.bartleby.com /65/da/Danishli.html (613 words)

	Rolf Sindø - Ph.D. project
		In 2003 most companies have homepages, e-commerce is growing economical factor in the Danish segment of the WWW, and the growing number of anglicisms in the Danish language shows that Danish (and therefore also Danish literature) is in a state of change, partly influenced of the World Wide Web.
		Danish literature accompanies the study of Danish language, and considering Danish being the core of the teachings in the public school system in Denmark, the parallel studies of literature and language are widely considered to be of foremost importance.
		Never the less, a fast survey amongst lecturers reveals that it is primarily Danish Literature from the middle ages and forward to 1980 that is being lectured.
	www.sindoe.dk /phd/project_e.html (1459 words)

	Scandinavian Literature
		A survey of the literatures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden with sections by specialists in the particular literatures.
		A new history of Icelandic literature from the sagas to the beginning of the 20th century, with illustrations.
		Covers Swedish literature from the Middle Ages to the second half of the twentieth century for comparatists, students, and general readers.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /mdx/bibliogs/Scandinavian/scandlit.htm (1242 words)

	Danish (from Literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Danish humanist who was among the first to rediscover Denmark's national literary and historical heritage and to encourage the development of a vernacular style in Danish literature.
		Autobiography of this Danish Nobel laureate, for Literature, in 1917.
		Autobiography of this Danish Nobel laureate, for Literature, in 1944.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-231843?tocId=231843 (581 words)

	Danish literature on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Danish dilemmas: South Schleswig after World War II and "unassimilated" immigrants today.
		Group identities and the construction of the 1943 rescue of the Danish Jews.
		Rescue and Cultural Context During the Holocaust: Grundtvigian Nationalism and the Rescue of the Danish Jews.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/danishli.asp (302 words)

	63rd IFLA General Conference - Conference Programme and Proceedings - August 31- September 5, 1997
		Children's literature is therefore a major component of the literary map.
		The result of the advancement of children's literature in the library service has been to give a large number of stimulating Danish authors the opportunity to evolve and reach a wide audience.
		A claim which had to be taken with a pinch of salt, but which, seen from the individual child’s point of view, was indeed true: this child had read every single book which he or she found inviting in accordance with his or her personal taste and stage of development.
	www.ifla.org /IV/ifla63/63glie.htm (4500 words)

	Danish language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Danish is a North Germanic language with around 5.5 million speakers mainly in Denmark, but also in Greenland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Canada, the UAE and the USA.
		Danish was the official language of Norway until about 1830 and of Iceland until 1944.
		Danish began to be used a literary languge during the 16th century.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/danish.htm (388 words)

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		Indeed, the present volume is somewhat uneven in its treatment of the early periods of Danish literary history.
		Only 119 of its 631 pages of literary analysis are devoted to the literature of the Medieval through Baroque periods, that is, these 119 pages attempt to encompass an immense span of approximately 1600 years from roughly the Birth of Christ through the end of the 17th century.
		The Vikings and their forebears (whether they were from what is now Denmark, Norway, or Sweden) spoke the same language with minor regional variations (a northern descendant of proto-Germanic) and were part of a homogeneous culture (which derived from the pagan Germanic culture).
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9505-hugus-history.txt (1271 words)

	Developments in Danish literature (from Scandinavian literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1536 the Lutheran Reformation was carried through in Denmark, and the beginning of the 16th century was characterized by many pamphlets for or against the Roman Catholic Church.
		Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
		As in the history of the literature of most peoples, poetry was the first literary expression of the Germans.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-29239?tocId=29239 (805 words)

	DANISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		DANISH 311 Topics in Danish Literature and Culture (5, max.
		Selected topics in modern Danish literature and culture, such as women's literature, Danish identity and the European Union, contemporary drama and film, or children's literature.
		DANISH 399 Foreign Study: Topics in Danish Literature and Culture (1-5, max.
	www.washington.edu /students/crscat/danish.html (201 words)

	Danish Arts - Literature
		The Literature Centre provides, for example, secretariat services to the Danish Arts Council's committee for literature, and in that connection administers a number of subsidy pools for international purposes.
		The Literature Centre also organises cultural exchanges between Denmark and other countries within the area of literature, including a number of tasks relating to information and communication.
		Literaturenet for author profiles, Danish literature in translation, the history of Danish literature, and NEWS regarding Danish literature
	www.kunststyrelsen.dk /39f0029/GSID/365896 (294 words)

	Bibelen
		This electronic edition of the Danish Bible translation of 1933 originates from the beginning of the 1990s or maybe late 1980s.
		The Danish preface to the electronic edition is signed by Søren Hornstrup, and was written before the copyright protection term was extended (in 1995) from 50 to 70 years.
		At Project Runeberg, we don't have a printed Danish Bible to compare typing errors against, but we have understood that the text is so full of errors that it would motivate a completely new scanning from paper.
	runeberg.org /dkbibel (204 words)

	Scandinavian Literature - World Literature - Your online reference for literature around the world
		By 1900 a lyrical reaction was being led by the poet J. Jorgensen; impressionistic themes became important, but were never the sole fruit of Danish literary endeavor.
		Frans Sillanpaa, who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature, gained fame for his lyrical impressionist novels.
		With Iceland's loss of political independence (1261-64) came a decline in literature, although the linguistic tradition continued and the old writings were still venerated.
	www.geocities.com /world_literature_2003/scandinavian_literature.html (1229 words)

	Jens Peter Jacobsen Biography / Biography of Jens Peter Jacobsen Biography
		For many years he was torn between science and literature, and he struggled all his life with a strong tendency to dream, an important theme in his writings.
		He abandoned his scientific plans and devoted his last 12 years to literature, producing under the most difficult conditions two remarkable novels and a handful of poems and stories, a small production that yet ranks with the most original and enduring works in Danish literature.
		Jacobsen's novels and the best of his stories have had an important influence on Scandinavian literature for their penetrating psychology, their themes, and their style, which lift them out of the times in which they were written.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jens-peter-jacobsen (522 words)

	Danish literature -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first written evidences of Danish may be found in runic inscriptions, the extant majority of which date from 800 to 1100.
		The standout author in Danish literature in 1998 was Jens Christian Grøndahl, who emerged as a dominant figure in Danish letters.
		The norms of the first printed books in Danish continued the norm of the royal chancery in Copenhagen, which was not based on any particular dialect and probably reflected a state of the language closer to that of 1350 than of 1550.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028722 (637 words)

	Danish
		The courses in Danish are offered to provide opportunity for students to learn the language and literature of the people who founded Dana College.
		A survey of Scandinavian literature from the period of the sagas and ballads through the early nineteenth century.
		A survey of Scandinavian literature from the periods of the saga and ballads through the present.
	www.dana.edu /catalog/danish.html (316 words)

	Jay Smith & Associates Scandinavian Literature Price Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Danish Ore-Denomination Covers 1875-1902 (Jacobsen, 1997; Bogen om danske orebreve 1875-1902) Important handbook with Intro and Table of Contents in English; otherwise in Danish but is an extremely useful presentation of postal history, services, and rates, with superb illustrations.
		Danish Railway Post Offices and Their Cancellations, Part I, "The Islands" (Hovard, 1994; De Danske Jernbanebureauer og deres Stempler, del 1, Oerne) An exhaustive handbook and catalog starting with the history of the Danish railway post and an overview of the cancellations, followed by the listings for the Danish "islands".
		Danish Numeral Cancellations (1985, JKE group; Danmarks Poststempler Annulleringstempler; contained in the Nordfrimex 85 show catalog) The original publication of the important research article which is much referred to in the Tester and Hansen book.
	www.jaysmith.com /Literature/lit030-den.html (4528 words)

	Danish history (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		First of all, the bombing of tivoli was a "Schalburgtage" committed by Danish Nazies not but the Germans, and it happenened after august 43, were the Danish government demissioned and the "peaceful" occupation and collaboration ended.
		The Danish National bank then paid from the "clearing-account", which was then supposed to be repaid by the Germans, this however never happened (the account still amounts to several milliards in 1996).
		A lot of the stories are inaccurate or untrue and tend to polish the Danish image, which in view of the Governments acts from April 9th 1940 to 29 August 1943 is deeply tarnished by a policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq33.html (3509 words)

	Danish literature (the s.c.nordic FAQ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As a result, the Danish drama was created by Ludvig Holberg (born in Norway), whose joyous and witty comedies had an enormous impact on all Scandinavian playwrights of the following generations.
		Among their contemporaries were the two perhaps most famous figures of Danish literature throughout the ages: the fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) [portrait on the right] and the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) whose influence was fully felt only with 20th-century existentialism.
		Major early 20th-century figures Danish literature were the proletarian novelist Martin Andersen Nexø (1869 - 1954) and the poet and novelist Johannes V. Jensen (who won a Nobel Prize in 1944).
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/scn/faq353.html (655 words)

	Scandinavian Studies Web: Literature
		Danish Grammar (by John Madsen) - an excellent online guide ranging from pronunciation to idioms, with links to further Danish grammars and dictionaries.
		Swedish Literature (at encyclopedia.com) - short, dictionary-length excerpts on periods and authors of Swedish literature from the beginnings to the end of the 20th century.
		Swedish Literature in the 20th Century (from sweden.se) - a readable English-language introduction to 20th-century Swedish literary history.
	www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wess/scan/nordlit.html (1076 words)

	Scandinavian Studies : Faculty : Marianne Stecher-Hansen
		Her courses emphasize the study of literary texts in cultural, historical and political contexts and cover a wide selection of Scandinavian literary masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries.
		Professor Stecher-Hansen specializes in Danish literature; she supervises the Danish studies program at UW and has edited two volumes of reference works which present Danish writers from the Reformation through the 20th Century.
		Danish writers from the Reformation to Decadence, 1550-1900, edited and with an introduction by Stecher-Hansen, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.
	depts.washington.edu /scand/faculty/stecher-hansen.shtml (403 words)

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