Posted by: abrokencup | May 1, 2008

16 things you should know about Denmark

It’s been an ongoing joke in my time in Youth With A Mission that my students have to learn a lot about the little, fairly insignificant Scandinavian kingdom of Denmark. Of course I have to educate my students about the wonders of the fairy tale nation, and so I have with stories, quizzes, songs and different lovely food. Now that I’m soon leaving YWAM Kyiv and my role as the director of Discipleship Training Schools (DTS) here, I thought it was appropriate to make sure that the leaders who will follow in my shoes will continue to share important facts about Denmark with future students. So I made a little list with the 16 most important facts that anybody should know about Denmark. And here it is for you, dear blog reader, so you can be educated about the important things of life as well ;-) 

1.            Denmark is the oldest existing kingdom in the world 

2.            Denmark has the oldest existing flag in the world (June 15, 1219)

3.           Denmark is ruled by a queen (Queen Margrethe II), and her husband is a prince not a king!

4.           Denmark has the happiest people in the world 

5.           Søren Kierkegaard was a very intelligent Dane who said clever things such as : “Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself” and “Purity of heart is to will one thing” 

6.            “Rødgrød med fløde” (approximately strawberry porridge with cream) is really hard to say if you’re not a Dane

7.            LEGO is the greatest Danish invention ever 

8.            …but Skype comes pretty close..! 

9.             Norway is not the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen (København) is!

10.           Hans Christian Andersen, the world’s greatest fairy tale writer, was born in Odense, Denmark

11.           Denmark’s highest point is only 170 meters (557 feet) – in your face, Mount Everest!!

12.           Denmark is made up of 444 islands of which 76 are inhabited

13.           Clicking on www.fck.dk will take you to the website of Scandinavia’s best football club

14.           Denmark has, without much competion, the greatest food in the world

15.           Danes like to draw and print cartoons, also when they probably shouldn’t…

16.           Denmark’s language is called Danish, not Dutch…!!!

That won’t be too hard to remember, right?!!

Torben 

 

 

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Not forget mentioning that Danmark is, has always been and will always be the slighty less civilized sister of The Kingdom of Sweden…

By: Erik on May 11, 2008
at 7:03 am

Hmmm….Erik…that’s interesting coming from a Swede. Do you guys even have electricity and running water in the whole country or is that still only available in Stockholm and Gothenburg? :-)

By: abrokencup on May 11, 2008
at 3:07 pm

BEst Food In the World?? I doubt it… :)

Portugal rules!!!

By: filipe lacerda on June 24, 2008
at 8:52 am

I think young Filipe should come to Denmark and try for himself :-)! And what’s up with Portugal losing to mediocre Germany?

By: abrokencup on June 25, 2008
at 2:24 pm

Hi. well I come from Georgia, and I’m staying in denmark for a year, so far I like everithing, the languige is a little bit hard but i get on with it. I just would like to compare some of the things listed above with Georgia:
1. Georgia has about 16 centuries of history.
2. I dont know about the flag, buut we have 3
year old national flag.
3.we have one of the poorest people in here.
4.We had lots of great writers who wrote pretty beauteful poems which had a lot of scense in them.
5. we have our own languige which is pretty old, and pretty different fron any other existing. we even have some labels that are realy hard to pronaunce.
6. we also have an ovsome nature, I think you can meet nearly any kind of natural zone, like mountains, alpic zones around 4500 meters, lots of kinds of forests, swamps, desert, even some tropical forests, seaside, and mani more.
7. We have worlds worst football team even if one georgian is playing in milan. But we have a great rugby team.
8. well about food so far I like what I’m given here, but georgian traditional food is also grea and tasty, filled with loads of georgian cheese.
well that would be all i think, we normaly dont have much electrical things at house because we are used to sitting without electrisity, well t hat’s how it was some years ago. Also I must admit that I know loads of peaple having skype and I like Lego too.

By: george on September 27, 2008
at 4:17 pm

Hey George!

I did spent a lovely week in Tbilisi in February this year. I really enjoyed the historical sites, the beautiful nature and most of the food, even though I will never be a big fan of cow brain… :-) Hope you’ll continue to enjoy your time in Denmark!

Torben

By: abrokencup on September 27, 2008
at 7:03 pm

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