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The traditional costumes of Denmark, though varying from region to region, date back roughly to the period between 1750 and 1900 when clothes were often home-made from yarn spun from wool or flax. In rural communities, the fabrication of garments for both family members and servants was an important part of everyday life.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
The term Fastelavn comes from Old Danish fastelaghen, which was a borrowing of the Middle Low German vastel-avent, meaning "fast-evening", or the day before Lent. [6] The word has cognates in other mostly Germanic languages and languages with contact with it, including Kölsch Fastelovend, Limburgish Vastelaovend, Dutch Vastenavond, Scots Fastens-een, Latvian Vastlāvji, and Estonian Vastlapäev.
The culture of Denmark has a rich artistic and scientific heritage. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), the philosophical essays of Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), the short stories of Karen Blixen, penname Isak Dinesen, (1885–1962), the plays of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik Pontoppidan and the dense ...
Today it consists of 50 singers, boys starting at the age of 8 or 9. The choir gives performances of classical church music both at home and abroad. Venues have included St Peters, Rome, Notre-Dame de Paris and Westminster Abbey. Their tour to the United States in 2013 included concerts in New York, New Haven and Boston. [1]
An American mother living abroad in Denmark gave people an inside look at the country’s free paediatric dentistry system inside elementary schools. ... moved to Denmark four years ago with her ...
MTV Denmark was a music and entertainment channel broadcasting to the Danish market. The channel replaced MTV Nordic in May, 2005, however on February 22, 2019, it was replaced by the return of MTV Nordic .
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 31: Dylan Dreyer attends the Halloween-themed show on "Today" at Rockefeller Plaza on October 31, 2023 in New York City.