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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
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