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[Jubber]

They're all the descendants of an experiment in 1521 when King Christian II brought 45 farming families up from Holland to provide food to the court.

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[JamieMoles]

That said the pronunciation of the langauges is very differnt - for example in WW2 Allied soldiers folllwing the route of the Nazis from The Nehtherlands - would test if a suspected German soldier was in fact pretending to be Dutch by asking him to pronounce the name of the Dutch resort Schevinigen.

I heard the Germans did the same with suspected allies using the town of Oegstgeest - at least that's what I was told when I lived in Leiden.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Rather interestingly in the 'official' Danish history the first example of an integration problem was in 1735 when a Danish speaking priest was appointed to a Church on an island that is now part of Copenhagen where all the locals spoke Sallands (and little or no Danish). Lots of people in the area still have Dutch names and the accent is recognisably Dutch, well to my ears. They're all the descendants of an experiment in 1521 when King Christian II brought 45 farming families up from Holland to provide food to the court.

not anymore.

I know a few who have moved to Amager.

[threaded]

not anymore.

I know a few who have moved to Amager.

Thanks to the citizenship requirements the congregation can rest easy and be glad to know a foreigner living in Denmark generally knows more about Denmark and Danish culture than even a well educated Dane.

[darmstadt]

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
Ben ick van Duytschen bloet

although I quite like these lines:

Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang

[Board Game Geek]

Threaded wrote : when King Christian II brought 45 farming families up from Holland to provide food to the court.

Threaded's ancestors

their football-field sized dining table

[ThomasSoerensen]

Thanks to the citizenship requirements the congregation can rest easy and be glad to know a foreigner living in Denmark generally knows more about Denmark and Danish culture than even a well educated Dane.

You were not talking about Amager?