Talk:Denmark

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Danish mottos

Are the danish moto: "Lad os hygge os" not rigtigt correctly translate to "Let's have a good time" or are it untranslatable?

It are untranslatable.

"Hygge" is nearly intranslatble. "Good time" is not really appropriate as "hygge" implies a lack of rowdiness. "Hanging out" has some of the same connotation.--SVTCobra 23:53, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

National motto: The help of God, the love of people, the greatness of Denmark.

is slogan of election of Queen or motto of the Queen.

"Lad os hygge os" can easily be translated as "Let's have a good time". It might miss a few nuances, but in general it expresses the same sentiment.--Kristjan Wager 20:13, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Wouldn't the Queen's motto "Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke" perhaps be better as "God's help, the People's love, Denmark's strength" rather than "God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength"? If nothing else, then because it is close in structure to the Danish version.--Kristjan Wager 20:13, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Agreed. I think it gets to the heart of the motto. - Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk 23:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Maps

I have made maps of the 13 counties of denmark - http://cryosphere.net/~morwen/denmark/ These aren't showing the municipalities with the status of counties because I couldnt find maps showing those borders. Any comments? Morwen 22:10, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)

Great! I was actually going to ask you how you made your maps of the English counties, in order to give the Danish ones a try myself - you beat me to it and probably made the maps look better than I would have managed. :-)

You can see the municipalities on http://www.kmdvalg.dk/ (an election site); select the counties to "zoom in" (the municipalities in white didn't want to submit election information to the site, their colours have no relevance otherwise).

There is one error in your County of Copenhagen map: the county doesn't include the municipalites of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg (despite its name). Exclude both the light greenish municipalities (http://www.kmdvalg.dk/k389.htm) as seen on the election site.

For completeness, and in order not to annoy the people living there, you should probably also include the island of Bornholm in your maps, even though it's not a county by definition (but like the Copenhagen and Frederiksberg municipalities, Bornholm Regional Municipality has country privileges) - maybe you could use a third colour for these three areas?

Oh, and if you decide to add municipalites, please notice that Bornholm is now one municipality, and no longer five as shown on the election site.

- Kåre Thor Olsen (Kaare) 20:08, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Done. I uploaded a map of copenhagen municipality, leaving it here

This probably wants adding to the copenhagen city page? I didn't upload the Fredricksberg map since it is impossible to see it. I will ponder that. ;) Morwen 21:22, Jan 29, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll add the county maps to da: and the Copenhagen Municipality map to either the city page or a new municipality page.

You're right about Frederiksberg Municipality, it would be a tiny dot. ;-) Its area is very small, but 90,000 people live there...

- Kåre Thor Olsen (Kaare) 21:41, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

A controversy has erupted over the choice of map for this article. The two candidates are shown here, along with any others that other Wikipedians may choose to enter. Feel free to make any comments. The lower map may also appear in the corresponding Geography article for this country. Kelisi 02:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I like the small one best; the text in the large one doesn't look good when the map is scaled to the size in which it is used (too small and too cluttered), and the colors in the big one are too strong. It may be a good idea to show amt borders as the big one does, but it may end up too cluttered for the size we use. Thue | talk 06:25, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Janteloven

Are you able to translate the Danish text of te article on Janteloven into English, please? See my request at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Jante_Law Agendum 00:39, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The additional information in the Danish article has already been deleted once, but was apparently added back. The reference to Jesus (quoting the bible) is far-fetched in my opinion (so I'm not going to translate it) - but I haven't read Sandemose's book nor the bible... - Kåre Thor Olsen (Kaare) 20:08, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Harold Bluetooth

"Denmark was united by Harold Bluetooth (Harald Blåtand) around 980"

No, his father Gorm the English was king of Denmark and Norway. And father and son were kings together by 14 year.

Gorm the Old is identical by Guthrum of East_Anglia. Danish: Gorm = English: Guthrum. Guthrum the Young was king from 902 to 918 in East_Anglia.

Flag colour

(SVG Format (http://www.sodipodi.com/clipart/flags/denmark.svg)) The red of this flag is to light.

Msg boxes rm'd

(Mon May 31, 2004). Sky, why did you remove the messages boxes about Denmark being among monachies, and being member of the Nordic Council? - I'm talking about this change: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Denmark&diff=0&oldid=3789741 --TroelsArvin

Hmm, maybe he/she did it due to some consensus among the WikiProject Countries members? (warning: long discussion, but essential). I also notice that there's a new 'category' feature popping up in many countries' articles; perhaps this is meant to replace msg boxes? Just guessing here. --Wernher 20:42, 31 May 2004 (UTC) ( who, incidentally, made the monarchies msg box, and now is considering to make it into a category instead... I would like this information to be available in the kingdoms' articles, one way or another.  ;-/ )

IMO, Nordic Council can stay. It was there before all this MediaWiki boxes crazyness came about. I'm thinking that monarchies should go to Politics of Denmark, NATO should go to Military of Denmark, etc. Feel free (to anyone) to comment at WikiProject Countries, BTW. --Jiang 21:39, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

OK, I will take part in further discussion on this matter in WikiProject Countries' Talk page. I agree on the theme-based placement of boxes as outlined. But I think a monarchy *category* marker could be placed in the top right(?) of the main article of the monarchial countries. --Wernher 17:54, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Update: see Category:Monarchies (so far only Andorra included, as a test). The MediaWiki box is now placed in the category page instead. --Wernher 20:29, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Denmark's area

This article says that Denmark is smaller than more than 100 countries, but List of countries by area says that it is a lot larger. Any comments?? 66.32.242.106 00:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The list (as you may have noticed) includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands, both of which are home ruling territories of the Kingdom of Denmark. This article, however, leaves the description of Greenland and the Faroe Islands to their respective articles. Usually when you say Denmark, you don't also mean Greenland and Faroe Islands, who in several ways are independant countries and dislike being thought of as mere remote parts of Denmark. - Kaare 00:39, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Page organization

It seems a bit strange to me that we have both a "Miscellaneous topics" section and a "See also" section. The two don't seem to differ much. Would anyone oppose to a fusion of the two, and an alphabetization of the items in the fused section?

By the way: I would like to add ISO 3166's two-/three-letter code and numeric code, the Danish language code, Denmark's international licence plade code, perhaps the International Telecommunication Union letter code for Denmark, etc. I thought this could be put in a little table somewhere on the page. Any thoughts on this? TroelsArvin 09:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Religion

there is really no mention of religion in Denemark... I know you are very secular country...but... there seems to be something missing --Macronyx 12:14, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Religion is of so little importance that it's rarely ever heard off, I see no reason why it should have any special mentioning other than than the obvious; That most citizens are born into the Lutheran church and freedom of religion is allowed.

"Robert Lacy"

Some anonymous editor (138.217.68.91) has added a stub atticle about a writer called Robert Lacy and added him to the list of well known Danes (the Culture section). Allegedly, Robert Lacy lives in Odense. I cannot find any evidence of a such a writer, neither in the White Pages, in the databases of Danish libraries, nor in Amazon. I'll remove the link (and ask for removal of the "Robert Lacy" page) if noone confirms the existence of "Robert Lacy" (with relevant proof of existence, like a reference to a publisher having published his work) soon. TroelsArvin 08:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have never heard of him, and I don't get any google hits for "Robert Lacy" "portraiture prize" (http://www.google.dk/search?q=%22Robert+Lacy%22+%22portraiture+prize%22&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial) and only one bad hit for "Robert Lacy" "Fish in a Barrel" (http://www.google.dk/search?q=%22Robert+Lacy%22+%22Fish+in+a+Barrel%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial). I added the article to vfd. Thue | talk 11:37, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)