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Title: Denmark

Author: M. Pearson Thomson

Release Date: December 13, 2006 [eBook #20107]

Language: English

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Peeps at Many Lands

NORWAY
BY LIEUT.-COL. A. F. MOCKLER-FERRYMAN,
F.R.G.S., F.Z.S.

and

DENMARK
BY M. PEARSON THOMSON

With Sixteen Full-Page Illustrations
in Colour

The MacMillan Company
64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York
1921

DENMARK

[Illustration: SKETCH-MAP OF DENMARK.]

CONTENTS

DENMARK

_By M. Pearson Thomson_

I. MERRY COPENHAGEN--I 1

II. MERRY COPENHAGEN--II 6

III. HANS ANDERSEN--THE "FAIRY-TALE" OF HIS LIFE 12

IV. FAMOUS DANES 18

V. LEGENDARY LORE AND FOLK-DANCES 25

VI. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 32

VII. A JAUNT THROUGH JUTLAND--I 39

VIII. A JAUNT THROUGH JUTLAND--II 45

IX. THE PEOPLE'S AMUSEMENTS 51

X. FARM LIFE--BUTTER-MAKING--"HEDESELSKABET" 54

XI. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 59

XII. THE PEOPLE OF THE ISLES 66

XIII. FISHERMEN AT HOME AND AFLOAT 72

XIV. YOUTHFUL DANES AT WORK AND PLAY 78

XV. INGEBORG'S J