Day 8 - Monday, June 8, 2009 We had an introduction to Danish history today. Our professor from the folk school was Henning Dochweiler who has recently returned from Vienna where he was the head of the Danish Institute of Culture for 30 years! Denmark has a total population of 5.4 million people and is only the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined. At one time it also included Norway, Sweden, the northern part of Germany and the Baltic coastline, Iceland and Greenland. (Tallin, the capitol of Estonia, means city of Danes.) In the time of the Vikings Denmark also included Britian. And little by little Denmark lost most of the territory it had conquered, although Iceland is an automonous region which Denmark helps support and Greenland is independent but is still under the Danish
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