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70-590: Herlev Ice Hockey club ( Danish : Herlev Ishockey Klub ), of which the Herlev Eagles are a part, was founded in 1968 by Poul Andersen, Jørgen Raae and Torben With after With returned to Denmark having lived in Canada where he developed a love of hockey and the Toronto Maple Leafs . Upon his return in 1964, With was initially involved with a team based in nearby Rødovre , until he decided to found

140-429: A "difficult language to learn, acquire and understand", and some evidence shows that children are slower to acquire the phonological distinctions of Danish compared with other languages. The grammar is moderately inflective with strong (irregular) and weak (regular) conjugations and inflections. Nouns, adjectives, and demonstrative pronouns distinguish common and neutral gender. Like English, Danish only has remnants of

210-499: A disastrous season in 1991-92 , as they finished dead last in the regular season and suffered the ignominy of relegation to the 2nd tier of the sport, now called the 1st Division , ending a ten-year run in the top tier. To further add salt to the wound, at the end of the season, the Eliteserien expanded to 10 teams. In their first season back in the 1st Division the team changed their name from Herlev IK to Herlev Ishockey. Whilst

280-577: A former case system , particularly in the pronouns. Unlike English, it has lost all person marking on verbs. Its word order is V2 , with the finite verb always occupying the second slot in the sentence. Danish is a Germanic language of the North Germanic branch . Other names for this group are the Nordic or Scandinavian languages. Along with Swedish, Danish descends from the Eastern dialects of

350-526: A literary language. Also in this period, Danish began to take on the linguistic traits that differentiate it from Swedish and Norwegian, such as the stød , the voicing of many stop consonants, and the weakening of many final vowels to /e/. The first printed book in Danish dates from 1495, the Rimkrøniken ( Rhyming Chronicle ), a history book told in rhymed verses. The first complete translation of

420-707: A number of Danes remained as a minority within German territories . After the occupation of Denmark by Germany in World War II, the 1948 orthography reform dropped the German-influenced rule of capitalizing nouns, and introduced the letter ⟨å⟩ . Three 20th-century Danish authors have become Nobel Prize laureates in Literature : Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan (joint recipients in 1917) and Johannes V. Jensen (awarded 1944). With

490-482: A similarity in pronunciation, combined with the long tradition of having Danish as a written language, which has led to similarities in vocabulary. Among younger Danes, Copenhageners are worse at understanding Swedish than Danes from the provinces. In general, younger Danes are not as good at understanding the neighboring languages as the young in Norway and Sweden. The Danish philologist Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen divided

560-586: A so-called multiethnolect in the urban areas, an immigrant Danish variety (also known as Perkerdansk ), combining elements of different immigrant languages such as Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish, as well as English and Danish. Within the Danish Realm , Danish is the national language of Denmark and one of two official languages of the Faroe Islands (alongside Faroese ). There is a Faroese variant of Danish known as Gøtudanskt . Until 2009, Danish

630-593: A team in Herlev along with Andersen and his brother-in-law Raae. The team initially played in Rødovre , until 1977 when the Herlev Skøjtehal was built. During the early 1980s Herlev IK played in the 2nd Division, and were often at the head of the table. During the 1981–82 season Herlev signed Canadian duo Frank Barth and Dana Barbin who helped lead the team to a first-place finish. The team would then make it to

700-625: A variant of Standard Danish, Southern Schleswig Danish , is spoken in the area. Since 2015, Schleswig-Holstein has officially recognized Danish as a regional language , just as German is north of the border. Furthermore, Danish is one of the official languages of the European Union and one of the working languages of the Nordic Council . Under the Nordic Language Convention , Danish-speaking citizens of

770-407: A very large vowel inventory consisting of 27 phonemically distinctive vowels , and its prosody is characterized by the distinctive phenomenon stød , a kind of laryngeal phonation type . Due to the many pronunciation differences that set Danish apart from its neighboring languages, particularly the vowels, difficult prosody and "weakly" pronounced consonants, it is sometimes considered to be

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840-571: Is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark . Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig , where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway , Sweden ,

910-700: Is a West Germanic language descended from Old English. Old Norse exerted a strong influence on Old English in the early medieval period. The shared Germanic heritage of Danish and English is demonstrated with many common words that are very similar in the two languages. For example, when written, commonly used Danish verbs, nouns, and prepositions such as have , over , under , for , give , flag , salt , and arm are easily recognizable to English speakers. Similarly, some other words are almost identical to their Scots equivalents, e.g. kirke (Scots kirk , i.e., 'church') or barn (Scots and northern English bairn , i.e. 'child'). In addition,

980-430: Is its closest relative. East Germanic languages West Germanic languages Icelandic Faroese Norwegian Danish Swedish Approximately 2,000 uncompounded Danish words are derived from Old Norse and ultimately from Proto Indo-European . Of these 2,000, 1,200 are nouns, 500 are verbs and 180 are adjectives. Danish has also absorbed many loanwords , most of which were borrowed from Low German of

1050-436: The skarre-R , the uvular R sound ( [ʁ] ), began spreading through Denmark, likely through influence from Parisian French and German. It affected all of the areas where Danish had been influential, including all of Denmark, Southern Sweden, and coastal southern Norway. In the 18th century, Danish philology was advanced by Rasmus Rask , who pioneered the disciplines of comparative and historical linguistics, and wrote

1120-623: The Bible in Danish, the Bible of Christian II translated by Christiern Pedersen , was published in 1550. Pedersen's orthographic choices set the de facto standard for subsequent writing in Danish. From around 1500, several printing presses were in operation in Denmark publishing in Danish and other languages. In the period after 1550, presses in Copenhagen dominated the publication of material in

1190-570: The Late Middle Ages . Out of the 500 most frequently used Danish words, 100 are loans from Middle Low German; this is because Low German was the second official language of Denmark–Norway. In the 17th and 18th centuries, standard German and French superseded Low German influence, and in the 20th century, English became the main supplier of loanwords, especially after World War II . Although many old Nordic words remain, some were replaced with borrowed synonyms, for example æde (to eat)

1260-523: The Old Norse language ; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages. Scandinavian languages are often considered a dialect continuum , where no sharp dividing lines are seen between the different vernacular languages. Like Norwegian and Swedish, Danish was significantly influenced by Low German in the Middle Ages, and has been influenced by English since

1330-1091: The United States , Canada , Brazil , and Argentina . Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse , the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Era . Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group , while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Norwegian Bokmål are classified as West Norse along with Faroese and Icelandic . A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian , and Swedish as "mainland (or continental ) Scandinavian", while Icelandic and Faroese are classified as "insular Scandinavian". Although

1400-544: The Zealand dialect Introductio ad lingvam Danicam puta selandicam ; and in 1685 the first Danish grammar written in Danish, Den Danske Sprog-Kunst ("The Art of the Danish Language") by Peder Syv . Major authors from this period are Thomas Kingo , poet and psalmist, and Leonora Christina Ulfeldt , whose novel Jammersminde ( Remembered Woes ) is considered a literary masterpiece by scholars. Orthography

1470-402: The following season finishing 6th out of 7 teams and failing to qualify for the play-offs for the first time since they joined the top tier. The team rebounded somewhat and they solidified themselves as a mid-table team over the next few seasons. In this time, they twice reached the bronze medal game, however, in both instances (1989 & 1991) the team failed to gain any silver-ware. Herlev had

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1540-402: The introduction of the printing press , a standard language was developed which was based on the educated dialect of Copenhagen and Malmö . It spread through use in the education system and administration, though German and Latin continued to be the most important written languages well into the 17th century. Following the loss of territory to Germany and Sweden, a nationalist movement adopted

1610-579: The 9th century with the younger futhark . Possibly as far back as the seventh century, the common Norse language began to undergo changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, resulting in the appearance of two dialect areas, Old West Norse ( Norway and Iceland ) and Old East Norse ( Denmark and Sweden ). Most of the changes separating East Norse from West Norse started as innovations in Denmark, that spread through Scania into Sweden and by maritime contact to southern Norway. A change that separated Old East Norse (Runic Swedish/Danish) from Old West Norse

1680-594: The Danish language, and also started a period of homogenization, whereby the Copenhagen standard language gradually displaced the regional vernacular languages. Throughout the 19th century, Danes emigrated, establishing small expatriate communities in the Americas, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Argentina, where memory and some use of Danish remains today. After the Schleswig referendum in 1920 ,

1750-517: The Danish language. Herrer og Narre have frit Sprog . "Lords and jesters have free speech." Peder Syv , proverbs Following the first Bible translation, the development of Danish as a written language , as a language of religion, administration, and public discourse accelerated. In the second half of the 17th century, grammarians elaborated grammars of Danish, first among them Rasmus Bartholin 's 1657 Latin grammar De studio lingvæ danicæ ; then Laurids Olufsen Kock 's 1660 grammar of

1820-407: The Danish tongue." Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson By the eighth century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse , had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse . This language was generally called the "Danish tongue" ( Dǫnsk tunga ), or "Norse language" ( Norrœnt mál ). Norse was written in the runic alphabet , first with the elder futhark and from

1890-710: The Old Norse word for "island". This monophthongization started in Jutland and spread eastward, having spread throughout Denmark and most of Sweden by 1100. Through Danish conquest, Old East Norse was once widely spoken in the northeast counties of England . Many words derived from Norse, such as "gate" ( gade ) for street, still survive in Yorkshire , the East Midlands and East Anglia, and parts of eastern England colonized by Danish Vikings . The city of York

1960-609: The Swedish Elitserien , primarily for Malmö Redhawks , as well as the Danish national team . Over the years, the team's performance in the 1st Division would slide, until they were in the bottom half of the table; this all changed however following the culmination of the 1998–99 season, when they, along with Gladsaxe SF were promoted to the top tier, now called the Codan Ligaen for sponsorship reasons. Upon rejoining

2030-600: The area, eventually outnumbering the Danish speakers. The political loss of territory sparked a period of intense nationalism in Denmark, coinciding with the so-called " Golden Age " of Danish culture. Authors such as N.F.S. Grundtvig emphasized the role of language in creating national belonging. Some of the most cherished Danish-language authors of this period are existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and prolific fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen . The influence of popular literary role models, together with increased requirements of education did much to strengthen

2100-508: The exclusive use of rigsdansk , the High Copenhagen Standard, in national broadcasting, the traditional dialects came under increased pressure. In the 20th century, they have all but disappeared, and the standard language has extended throughout the country. Minor regional pronunciation variation of the standard language, sometimes called regionssprog ("regional languages") remain, and are in some cases vital. Today,

2170-451: The first English-language grammar of Danish. Literary Danish continued to develop with the works of Ludvig Holberg , whose plays and historical and scientific works laid the foundation for the Danish literary canon. With the Danish colonization of Greenland by Hans Egede , Danish became the administrative and religious language there, while Iceland and the Faroe Islands had the status of Danish colonies with Danish as an official language until

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2240-426: The history of Danish into a period from 800 AD to 1525 to be "Old Danish", which he subdivided into "Runic Danish" (800–1100), Early Middle Danish (1100–1350) and Late Middle Danish (1350–1525). Móðir Dyggva var Drótt, dóttir Danps konungs, sonar Rígs er fyrstr var konungr kallaðr á danska tungu . " Dyggvi 's mother was Drott, the daughter of king Danp, Ríg 's son, who was the first to be called king in

2310-424: The language as a token of Danish identity, and the language experienced a strong surge in use and popularity, with major works of literature produced in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, traditional Danish dialects have all but disappeared, though regional variants of the standard language exist. The main differences in language are between generations, with youth language being particularly innovative. Danish has

2380-547: The language of the courts. Since 1997, public authorities have been obliged to follow the official spelling system laid out in the Orthography Law. In the 21st century, discussions have been held with a view to create a law that would make Danish the official language of Denmark. In addition, a noticeable community of Danish speakers is in Southern Schleswig , the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, and

2450-459: The leading scorer in franchise history. Herlev fared well in their first season back in the top division, finishing 6th out of 10 teams in the regular season, however, they lost to SønderjyskE in the opening round of the play-offs. The 2010s have seen Herlev remain in the bottom half of the top tier, known as the Metal Ligaen from 2014 onwards, including the disastrous 2016–17 season where

2520-407: The major varieties of Standard Danish are High Copenhagen Standard, associated with elderly, well to-do, and well educated people of the capital, and low Copenhagen speech traditionally associated with the working class, but today adopted as the prestige variety of the younger generations. Also, in the 21st century, the influence of immigration has had linguistic consequences, such as the emergence of

2590-422: The mid-20th century. Moders navn er vort Hjertesprog, kun løs er al fremmed Tale. Det alene i mund og bog, kan vække et folk af dvale. "Mother's name is our hearts' tongue, only idle is all foreign speech It alone, in mouth or in book, can rouse a people from sleep." N.F.S. Grundtvig , "Modersmaalet" Following the loss of Schleswig to Germany, a sharp influx of German speakers moved into

2660-410: The name of top division changed from the 1st Division to the Eliteserien, and the number of teams competing in the league was halved, from 14 the previous year down to 7. In this new-look league, Herlev had a fair season, finishing in 4th place and qualifying for the four team round-robin play-offs, where they finished bottom of the group, with Rødovre winning back-to-back championships. The team struggled

2730-581: The open round of the play-offs by the Aalborg Pirates . The Herlev Eagles is the professional side attached to Herlev Ishockey Klub. The club operates a range of teams, including a reserve team in the 1st Division , and multiple youth teams across a variety of ages. Herlev Ishockey Klub's Women's team is one of Denmark's successful, having repeatedly appeared in the IIHF European Women's Champions Cup as Danish champions. The competition

2800-475: The play-off final against the recently relegated Esbjerg IK , with the winners gaining promotion to the 1st Division (now known as the Metal Ligaen ). Herlev won, securing themselves a spot in the Danish top tier. During this time, Herlev also signed the Schultz brothers, Arne and Palle, from nearby Hvidovre who would go on to be integral parts of the team in the 1st Division. The 1982-83 was Herlev's first in

2870-514: The play-offs, but they also reached the final of the Danish Cup ultimately losing to a strong Odense Bulldogs side. They also strengthened their side, signing Jesper Duus and Patrick Boij from Hvidovre IK after the Hvidovre side filed for bankruptcy. September 28, 2003 marked an important day in the history of the club, as it was the day on which the rebuilding of the Herlev Skøjtehal

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2940-551: The regular season, they had a disappointing play-offs, losing in the opening round to the Odense Bulldogs . Following the end of the season, the team again changed its name, this time to the Herlev Hornets. Moving forward, the team were regularly found at the foot the league table, finishing last for 3 years in a row, whilst selling off their most valuable players to ensure solvency. The 2007–08 AL-Bank Ligaen season

3010-409: The scoring charts. Herlev finished the regular season at the top of the table and would meet AaB Ishockey in the play-off final. Herlev would have revenge on the team that knocked them out of the play-offs the year prior, beating them and therefore winning their first Danish Championship in only their 2nd season in the top tier. Herlev entered the 1984–85 as reigning champions, however, tragedy struck

3080-472: The shared written standard language remained). With the introduction of absolutism in 1660, the Danish state was further integrated, and the language of the Danish chancellery, a Zealandic variety with German and French influence, became the de facto official standard language , especially in writing—this was the original so-called rigsdansk ("Danish of the Realm"). Also, beginning in the mid-18th century,

3150-415: The team finished a respectable 3rd in the regular season, and qualified for the play-offs. The play-off format was changed for this season, instead of a knock-out bracket as usual, the top four teams in the regular season qualified for a post-season round robin tournament. Herlev managed 4 points in 6 games as Rødovre IK won the championship. A shake up in Danish hockey occurred during the 1985–86 season ;

3220-486: The team however, as the mounting financial issues caught up with the team, though they were able to make it to season end. In spring 2009 as a result of the financial pressures accrued over the previous seasons a new club was founded, however, the new side still retains the history and lineage of Herlev Ishockey Klub. The initial plan was for this team to play in the AL-Bank Ligaen, however, due to financial issues

3290-481: The team in December 1984 when Palle Schultz was accidentally struck in the neck with a stick in a game against Rungsted . Although he finished the game, the following day he lost consciousness as the strike from the stick had caused a blood clot that had stopped the blood supply to his brain. Five days on later on December 6, Schultz passed away at the age of 24. He was interred at Hvidovre Church . Despite their loss,

3360-412: The team initially fared well in the lower division, the gap in skill level between themselves and the last placed team in the Eliteserien prevented Herlev from gaining promotion back to the top level via the end of season qualification game. One bright spot in Herlev's initial seasons in 1st Division however was the emergence of home-grown youngster Kim Staal . Staal would later move to Sweden and played in

3430-538: The team managed to win only one game in regulation time. Despite this however, they have avoided relegation and have remained in the Metal Ligaen. The Eagles were in 7th position out of 10 teams during the 2019–20 season when the play-offs were cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . This marked their best result since 2012. They would finish in 7th position again the following season, and would be swept in

3500-559: The team were required to return to Division 1 . After spending a couple of seasons in the second tier, professional hockey returned to Herlev in 2011 when the team, who had reverted to the Herlev Eagles moniker, returned to the AL-Bank Ligaen. The team's first season back in the top flight saw the team signing some marquee names, including that of Kim Staal, who returned to his home-town club having played extensively across Sweden, as well as Finn Tomas Sinisalo and talented youngster Frederik Storm from nearby Gentofte , joining Thor Dresler ,

3570-486: The three languages can often understand the others fairly well, though studies have shown that the mutual intelligibility is asymmetric: Norwegian speakers generally understand both Danish and Swedish far better than Swedes or Danes understand each other. Concomitantly, Swedes and Danes understand Norwegian better than they understand each other's languages. Norwegian occupies the middle position in terms of intelligibility because of its shared border with Sweden, resulting in

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3640-447: The top division, and they performed well, finishing 2nd in the regular season. However, they lost in the play-off semi-finals to AaB Ishockey , they would still claim some silverware however, as they won the bronze-medal game against Rungsted IK . Barbin and Barth would finishing the season at the top of the league scoring charts. Herlev's second season in the top tier saw the team reach new heights, with Barbin and Barth again dominating

3710-400: The top five scorers in Herlev history. Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points Penalty minutes: Brian Jensen , 445 Danish language Nordic Council Danish ( / ˈ d eɪ n ɪ ʃ / , DAY -nish ; endonym : dansk pronounced [ˈtænˀsk] , dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ] )

3780-471: The top tier, the club changed their name once again to the Herlev Eagles. The Eagles would struggle upon their return to the top flight, regularly finding themselves at, or near, the foot of the table, however, they managed the avoid relegation. During the 2002–03 season , Herlev again qualified for the play-offs, however, they did not progress past the opening round. Not only did the Eagles manage to qualify for

3850-445: The turn of the 20th century. Danish itself can be divided into three main dialect areas: Jutlandic (West Danish), Insular Danish (including the standard variety), and East Danish (including Bornholmian and Scanian ). According to the view that Scandinavian is a dialect continuum, East Danish can be considered intermediary between Danish and Swedish, while Scanian can be considered a Swedified East Danish dialect, and Bornholmian

3920-411: The vernacular language to be accessible also to those who were not Latinate. The Jutlandic Law and Scanian Law were written in vernacular Danish in the early 13th century. Beginning in 1350, Danish began to be used as a language of administration, and new types of literature began to be written in the language, such as royal letters and testaments. The orthography in this period was not standardized nor

3990-469: The vernacular, such as the plural form of verbs, should be conserved in writing (i.e. han er "he is" vs. de ere "they are"). The East Danish provinces were lost to Sweden after the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645) after which they were gradually Swedified; just as Norway was politically severed from Denmark, beginning also a gradual end of Danish influence on Norwegian (influence through

4060-516: The whore-bed with another man's wife and he comes away alive..." Jutlandic Law, 1241 In the medieval period, Danish emerged as a separate language from Swedish. The main written language was Latin, and the few Danish-language texts preserved from this period are written in the Latin alphabet, although the runic alphabet seems to have lingered in popular usage in some areas. The main text types written in this period are laws, which were formulated in

4130-492: The word by , meaning ‘village’ or ‘town’, occurs in many English place-names, such as Whitby and Selby , as remnants of the Viking occupation . During that period English adopted ‘are’, the third person plural form of the verb ‘to be’, as well as the personal pronouns ‘they’, ‘them’ and ‘their’ from contemporary Old Norse. Danish is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Swedish . A proficient speaker of any of

4200-489: The written languages are compatible, spoken Danish is distinctly different from Norwegian and Swedish and thus the degree of mutual intelligibility with either is variable between regions and speakers . Until the 16th century, Danish was a continuum of dialects spoken from Southern Jutland and Schleswig to Scania with no standard variety or spelling conventions. With the Protestant Reformation and

4270-492: Was a territory ruled by Denmark–Norway , one of whose official languages was Danish. Though Danish ceased to be an official language in Iceland in 1944, it is still widely used and is a mandatory subject in school, taught as a second foreign language after English. No law stipulates an official language for Denmark, making Danish the de facto official language only. The Code of Civil Procedure does, however, lay down Danish as

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4340-457: Was also one of two official languages of Greenland (alongside Greenlandic ). Danish now acts as a lingua franca in Greenland, with a large percentage of native Greenlanders able to speak Danish as a second language (it was introduced into the education system as a compulsory language in 1928). About 10% of the population speaks Danish as their first language , due to immigration. Iceland

4410-503: Was an abject once, which saw the Hornets led by coach Johan Marklund win only 4 games all season, failing to win a single game from November onwards. Despite the team languishing at the foot to the AL-Bank Ligaen the team nevertheless remained in the Danish top flight. The 2008–09 season again saw the team at the foot of the table, with Coach Marklund being relieved of his duties and replaced with Erik Vikström . Things only got worse for

4480-414: Was completed. Unfortunately the Eagles were unable to mark the occasion with a win, suffering a 4–0 loss to Herning Blue Fox . The club's fortunes didn't improve during the 2003-04 season however, finishing 8th out of 9 teams. However, the following season would see an upturn in the team's fortunes, as they achieved their highest placing in nearly 20 years by finishing 3rd. Despite the good run of form in

4550-427: Was last played in 2015 , with the Herlev side making it through the 2nd round. The team's supporters club is known as Ørneborgen, or 'Eagles Nest', and focuses on raising funds for the team. Updated 3 October 2024. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes Danish Championships : These are

4620-488: Was mostly supplanted by the Low German spise . As well as loanwords, new words can be freely formed by compounding existing words. In standard texts of contemporary Danish, Middle Low German loans account for about 16–17% of the vocabulary, Graeco-Latin loans 4–8%, French 2–4% and English about 1%. Danish and English are both Germanic languages. Danish is a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse, and English

4690-627: Was once the Viking settlement of Jorvik. Several other English words derive from Old East Norse, for example "knife" ( kniv ), "husband" ( husbond ), and "egg" ( æg ). The suffix "-by" for 'town' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the east Midlands, for example Selby, Whitby, Derby, and Grimsby. The word "dale" meaning valley is common in Yorkshire and Derbyshire placenames. Fangær man saar i hor seng mæth annæns mansz kunæ. oc kumær han burt liuænd... . "If one catches someone in

4760-463: Was still not standardized and the principles for doing so were vigorously discussed among Danish philologists. The grammar of Jens Pedersen Høysgaard was the first to give a detailed analysis of Danish phonology and prosody, including a description of the stød . In this period, scholars were also discussing whether it was best to "write as one speaks" or to "speak as one writes", including whether archaic grammatical forms that had fallen out of use in

4830-469: Was the change of the diphthong æi (Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e , as in stæin to sten . This is reflected in runic inscriptions where the older read stain and the later stin . Also, a change of au as in dauðr into ø as in døðr occurred. This change is shown in runic inscriptions as a change from tauþr into tuþr . Moreover, the øy (Old West Norse ey ) diphthong changed into ø , as well, as in

4900-474: Was the spoken language, and the regional laws demonstrate the dialectal differences between the regions in which they were written. Throughout this period, Danish was in contact with Low German , and many Low German loan words were introduced in this period. With the Protestant Reformation in 1536, Danish also became the language of religion, which sparked a new interest in using Danish as

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