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I think you're pulling my leg here. Isn't Oger li Daneis the French name for this guy?
(That statue by the way sits underneath Kronborg and legend says that should Denmark ever be in really serious trouble then he'll awake.)
I think you're pulling my leg here. Isn't Oger li Daneis the French name for this guy?
(That statue by the way sits underneath Kronborg and legend says that should Denmark ever be in really serious trouble then he'll awake.)
Ehm.
If these things get you excited, you might be interested in the Middle English Havelok the Dane.
I was referring to how there later were made up loads of legends about him. Some of them are quite out there like for instance him being a giant who crushes enemies like ants. Whereas others might be true, albeit we have no way of knowing, like the one about him being the son of king Godfred who was sent to the service of Charlemagne as a way to keep peace between the Danes and the Franks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogier_the_Danewiki said:
Yes, it's the same person. He's in other parts of the work, if you want to know them, too.
Your forceful response seemed vaguely similar to the line, hence my quoting it.
I was channel-surfing last night and caught about 10 minutes of some movie called The Prince and Me. It's about a romance between the Prince of Denmark and some random American farmgirl/med student. It was mildly amusing and ridiculously predictable, but I stopped watching when the writers' extreme ignorance of Denmark became apparent (thanks to the 'Litz I know way too much about Danish society and culture -- the movie had a distinct lack of Asian sex slaves, milk peasants, and slaughtered kittens). @Wagonlitz, have you heard of this movie, and what do you think of it?
I guess our milk peasants have a more rustic charm than the natives.
We need to write a reversal on this theme wherein an up and coming Park Avenue corporate type goes to Denmark and falls for the charms of a milk maid.
He's transferred there. On business. And he hates it. He's staying at this dairy farm in Aasvuck province and the farmer's only daughter is taking over because she wants to see the farm continue as it did since before the reign of King Lafredebbole. She's setting aside her dream of studying graphic design and the royal academy of ad copy for this because it means so much to her.
Throw in some stuff about EU farm subsidies, typical Hollywood jokes about country folk and their quaint customs, melodrama about the milk maid's estranged boyfriend.
We can do this.
I want to read the whole thing at some point.
How as it forceful?
I have some vague recollection of having heard that name long ago. Given your description it appears to be made over the story of crown prince Frederik and crown princes Mary, who he met in Sydney during the 2000 Olympics. I read the plot on wiki and it's made shortly after their wedding, so it almost certainly is made over that story. (Said story by the way is the reason the Danish royal house is more followed by many Australians than the British one.)
Reading the plot it appears to be a really terrible movie though. Can't say anything about it's accuracy though, but I'd be surprised if it didn't have some major mistakes. Also for some unfathomable reason there's been three sequels... All of which looks terrible too. (And at least movie 2 has a major mistake, since it's plot according to wiki is about there being a law requiring princes to marry only princesses, which there blatantly isn't given how Frederik married Mary. Plus it has always solely been up to the discretion of the reigning monarch who any member of the royal house can marry, and it still is that way. And then it according to wiki has an old clause where any girl can become a princess by knowing the constitution.:facepalm: Firstly any democratic constitution is younger than any such law would be, so it would have had to be the King Law (the constitution for our absolutism; we were the only country to have our absolutism legitimised through a constitution afaik). Plus just the mere idea that everybody can become a royal is utterly ridiculous.)
Lol
By the way today the mother of MATADOR, Lise Nørgaard turned 100. Aside from having written the script for many movies, series she also is one of the big journalists of the last century, having started as a journalist back in 1935. In the 50s and 60s she was the editor of a column where women could get advice on sex, society, and how to gender roles. She also was a prominent feminist. That made several angry men send her very stern letters. Here's a few excepts from the letters (I'm capitalising You to show it's the formal version being used).
"Such a crazy woman like You harm society and the children. So You should just shut up with your unsubstantiated theories."
"You are against using flogging as part of raising children. Save me for Your flabby humanitarian nonsense."
The latter she replied this with, which is brilliant: "I won't even argue against You. I let Your exquisite language, Your lovely tone, and Your unique tolerance illustrate how fully successful and well raised humans became under the old child raising paradigme."
And she's still really active despite that age, though she is getting tired from the first thing every single person she meets wants to talk about being MATADOR.
Some deadbeats decided this was a good occasion to get attention for some cause, so they threw red paint over her statue... (Other deadbeats used the cover of night to pour blue and white paint over the statue of the little mermaid... Deadbeats just doesn't know how to follow rules.
)
Anyway speaking of MATADOR then she originally planned it to be a book which covered 60 years. And as such there actually is a storyarch for 60 years despite the series only covering 18. As mentioned they contemplated making it longer, but just before the decision of whether to make a 5th season or not a large storm completely ruined the entire set. Holger Juhl Hansen, the actor playing Bank CEO Varnæs, stated that it was God saying that it was perfect as it was.
In 1998 they gathered the then surviving actors who then had to guess what happened to their characters after the series, before Lise then told what she had planned.
Though it would be interesting to read how those last 42 years were planned to unfold.
Also given we were on the subject of the crown princess then she, and princess Marie, both had watching MATADOR be an integral part of their learning Danish when they first were introduced to the royal family.
"Such a crazy woman like You harm society and the children. So You should just shut up with your unsubstantiated theories."
"You are against using flogging as part of raising children. Save me for Your flabby humanitarian nonsense."
The latter she replied this with, which is brilliant: "I won't even argue against You. I let Your exquisite language, Your lovely tone, and Your unique tolerance illustrate how fully successful and well raised humans became under the old child raising paradigme."
And she's still really active despite that age, though she is getting tired from the first thing every single person she meets wants to talk about being MATADOR.
Some deadbeats decided this was a good occasion to get attention for some cause, so they threw red paint over her statue... (Other deadbeats used the cover of night to pour blue and white paint over the statue of the little mermaid... Deadbeats just doesn't know how to follow rules.
)
Anyway speaking of MATADOR then she originally planned it to be a book which covered 60 years. And as such there actually is a storyarch for 60 years despite the series only covering 18. As mentioned they contemplated making it longer, but just before the decision of whether to make a 5th season or not a large storm completely ruined the entire set. Holger Juhl Hansen, the actor playing Bank CEO Varnæs, stated that it was God saying that it was perfect as it was.
In 1998 they gathered the then surviving actors who then had to guess what happened to their characters after the series, before Lise then told what she had planned.
Though it would be interesting to read how those last 42 years were planned to unfold.
Also given we were on the subject of the crown princess then she, and princess Marie, both had watching MATADOR be an integral part of their learning Danish when they first were introduced to the royal family.
Is it available in Danish? There was an Old Norse variant of the same story.
It seemed that way to me. At the least, I was caught up in the spirit of the moment and felt the need to parry such a thrust.
I'm looking to get into a new AAR again, and I don't really want to dig around for the responses from when last I asked, so do you guys have any recommendations for AARs? Preferably they would be finished, but that isn't required.
Chinese Cheese.
Also have you ever read the ones with that stick man (whose name I've momentarily forgotten, but think it starts with an s). Because if not then you definitely needs to read that.
And I remembered the name. It's svip. Have you ever read any of the svip AARs? If not then do it. Here's Glory for Ulm---the reason that Ulm has a special place to devs and forumites alike.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/glory-for-ulm-a-flagland-aar.513240/
And here's Chinese Cheese.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/chinese-cheese-a-ming-aar.435549/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/glory-for-ulm-a-flagland-aar.513240/
And here's Chinese Cheese.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/chinese-cheese-a-ming-aar.435549/
Oh, and before I forget, please avoid shameless self-promotion of your own AARs. You know who you are.
(Not implying Wagon was doing so, just thought of it after he posted.)
(Not implying Wagon was doing so, just thought of it after he posted.)
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I'm a fan of Subcontinental Subtleties (Vic II) myself. Another one of those experimental comic type AARs, but I thought it was good.
I'd plug my own AAR, but it died after the first Prologue update.
I don't remember what I recommended to you last time, so I'll recommend Consecrated Blood Waters My Fields: A Hvitserk Megacampaign, by Avindian and Albion and Empire - A (Very) British Victoria II (NWO) Interactive AAR, by 99KingHigh.
I don't remember what I recommended to you last time, so I'll recommend Consecrated Blood Waters My Fields: A Hvitserk Megacampaign, by Avindian and Albion and Empire - A (Very) British Victoria II (NWO) Interactive AAR, by 99KingHigh.
@Wagonlitz
You left me hanging regarding Danish translations of medieval literature.
What did I do to merit that?
You left me hanging regarding Danish translations of medieval literature.
What did I do to merit that?