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Danes, or Danish people, are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark. This connection may be ancestral, legal, historical, or cultu
Ogier the Dane (Holger Danske) at Kronborg Castle is an important national icon from the Viking age.
Girls from Denmark
Danish consulate in Coruña, (Spain)
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Swedes, or Swedish people, are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and language. Swedes mostly inhabit Sweden but have also migrated to other countries, es
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…centuries after this loss of territory, the populations of the Scanian lands, who had previously been considered Danish, came to be fully integrated as Swedes. In the early 19th century, Denmark suffered a defeat in the Napoleonic Wars; Denmark lost control over Norway and territories in what is now northern…
Stone slab from The King's Grave in southern Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age, 1400 BC
The Vendel I helmet, at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities.
Eric the Victorious praying to Odin; 1895 illustration by Jenny Nyström.
Gustav Vasa addressing men from Dalarna in Mora. Idealized depiction by Johan Gustaf Sandberg, 1836