#danmark

[czech-hunter-reject]

Okay. So in Danmark we have this concept called a "kvaje kage", which literally means "screw-up cake". Essentially, it's when you've screwed up in either your place of work or any other cultural context, and you need to "atone" by bringing cake the next day. It's very common here. But, some bakers also make some form of cake or pastry that they call a kvaje kage, and well, this one Danish baker just made these lol

Donald Trump kvaje kage. Both to be used as a kvaje kage, but also because, well, Trump is quite the kvaj himself lol. Oh, and these kvaje kager are a play on the type of pastry/cake we have in Danmark called "Kaj kage" that looks like this

Kaj is one half of quite the cultural institution here in Danmark: the extremely popular children's show characters called Kaj & Andrea

Kaj & Andrea originally ran from 1971-1975, and then again from 1996-2007, and they were IMMENSELY popular here. Both my parents and then me and my siblings grew up with them, and you've been able to buy Kaj & Andrea plushies ever since the show first started (and most kids here had both of them at some point or another)

Anyways, context probably wasn't needed, but I just thought tumblr might find this funny 😄

[mikeahrens]

At the Beach

[pangeen]

" Never surrender to bad weather " //© IbHelles Olesen

Original Audio

[museoparticular]

Slott Georg Harald Møller (Danmark , 1864–1937) Primavera. 1909

[gluttondraws]

VENDELBO HATSUNE MIKU JAAAAAAAA 🇩🇰🛵🍺⚫💰

A friend of mine and I brainstormed over how a Danish Hatsune Miku (but specifically from Northern Jutland) would look like and behave. The jumpsuit, (illegal) moped, and Grøn Tuborg beer was a must. Everything else sort of fell in place afterwards. This depiction is so, so real. I have family that look and speak like this lol

Apropos speaking, in case you're wondering about what she's saying; she's complaining about taxes. I wanted to be sure the sentence in Vendelbomål is spelled correct, and so I used Vendsysselsk ordbog by Arne Espegaard.... which was a total of 4 entire books to go through, but worth the effort!

The blue/orange/green flag is Vendelbrog, the local flag around here.

[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Esben Bøg Jensen

[svennomaani]

Hej Nordiska vänner and everybody

There is a thing called Runeberg.org that is like Project Gutenberg, but focusing on Nordic texts. They have scans of old books, from which a computer has extracted the text, and that automatic text needs to be proofread and corrected to match the scanned page.

Its a lot of stuff in Swedish but also plenty other languages too (Danish and Norwegian and Finnish, but also German, French, English, Latin...)

So if you wanna do some volunteer good work in the world you can help out with the proofreading. It's all done in the browser, I've been doing it on the phone, so it really doesn't take anything special.

Some stuff is in blackletter, which can be hard to read if youre not used to it, but there's also stuff in more modern fonts.

Here are the instructions in how to do it:

I'm currently proofreading a Finnish translation of Danish stories from the 1800s. You can arrange the titles according to language, so you can find the ones you can read.

There are at least a couple of "English-speaking person travels in Sweden and describes what's there" -books that are in English in the time period I looked at.

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Denmark, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

[quazarshark]

I've had the concept of the "english lions" in my head for a long time: Lore-created creatures of March Earth that resemble the anatomically bizarre lions of the UK coat of arms, but I realised today that there are so many weird heraldry lions in europe, why stop there? from now on they are called "herald lions" and they're all over the european subcontinent, with regional variants. They're all very old and pretty hard to kill, and the bohemian lion (silver-white with two tails) has the added wonderful trait of being radioactive, since the area that used to be Czechia in Infraflux is covered by MEGRA, the giant patch of radioactive terrain that has consumed a lot of central-eastern europe

original heraldry beasts and their lands of origin under the thingy:

Denmark

Finland

Czechia/Bohemia

United Kingdom (specifically Wales for the red lion)

[vintageeurope]

Aarhus, Denmark 1900

[czech-hunter-reject]

This is a Danish sign. A very normal Danish sign. Do with it what you will.

[fascinatingeurope]

🇩🇰 The Entrance to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced to compensate for fading.

[indiestar]

I looked up at the sky, and the moon was so full and still, while the clouds moved fast, and I can't seem to be able to write to anyone else but you.

[ist-das-kunst-oder-kann-das-weg]

[museoparticular]

Harald Slott-Møller pintor y ceramista danés (1864 – 1937) ................................ "Luz de la luna." Una pareja joven bien vestida observando la luna brillando sobre la superficie del agua. Firmado y fechado por Harald Slott-Møller Colección privada