C1 · Advanced
Danish Historical References
Recognize selected Danish historical references and explain the context a reader needs without assuming shared cultural knowledge.
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- Words & phrases
- 30
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 3
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Words you’ll make your own.
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- Hans Christian Andersen, fairy-tale author
- Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher
- Karen Blixen, author of 'Out of Africa'
- Ludvig Holberg, playwright and 'the Molière of the North'
- Bertel Thorvaldsen, neoclassical sculptor
- Niels Bohr, atomic physicist and Nobel laureate
- Storm P., cartoonist and humorist
- Piet Hein, poet and designer of the 'grook'
- Arne Jacobsen, architect and designer
- Queen Margrethe II
- Bishop Absalon, traditionally associated with Copenhagen's founding
- Struensee, royal physician and reformer
- the Viking Age
- the Kalmar Union
- the Reformation
- the era of Absolutism
- the Constitution
- the Reunification of 1920
- the German Occupation (1940–45)
- the Liberation of 1945
- the Danish Golden Age
- the historical system that bound male peasants to the estate where they were born (the adscription)
- the Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
- Dybbøl Mill, symbol of the 1864 war
- Kronborg Castle, Hamlet's Elsinore
- the Round Tower in Copenhagen
- Christiansborg Palace, seat of Parliament
- the Jelling stones (the larger one is called Denmark’s baptismal certificate)
- Freetown Christiania
- the Danish Realm (Denmark, Greenland, the Faroes)
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Historical Names and Allusions
- Lesson 2
Recognizing Danish Historical Names
Where this unit fits
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