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    Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Kronborg is one of...
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  • large part of Ribe. 11 streets and 213 houses burn down. 1581 The Kronborg Tapestries are commissioned. They are completed in 1596. 1588 The Dutch architect...
    5 KB (428 words) - 05:53, 6 December 2023
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    Hans Knieper (category Flemish tapestry artists)
    that he added a mark composed of a crown and a B to the tapestries that he designed for Kronborg Castle in Denmark. The B mark was a famous mark of a Brussels...
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    King Abel depicted in one of the Kronborg Tapestries at Kronborg Castle....
    10 KB (1,050 words) - 11:13, 23 May 2024
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    Prince Christian (IV) with his father Frederick II wearing the old crown, seen on one of the Kronborg Tapestries....
    7 KB (932 words) - 21:57, 12 February 2024
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    in Paris, produced unambitious floral and foliate tapestries called verdures and landscape tapestries, which are known through chance notations in royal...
    10 KB (1,293 words) - 17:12, 8 March 2024
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    when artist Bjørn Nørgaard's 17 tapestries recounting the history of Denmark were hung on the walls. The tapestries were a gift from the Danish business...
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    "Knight's Hall". Christian V had the hall partly modernised with twelve tapestries depicting the King's victories in the Scanian War (1675–1679). The stucco...
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    Duke Abel of Schleswig, (later Abel of Denmark) depicted in Tapestries at Kronborg Castle, 1581-86...
    14 KB (1,270 words) - 21:05, 15 June 2024
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    received two commissions for tapestry designs, one of which, from Lord Howard of Effingham, was for a series of ten tapestries depicting the defeat of the...
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    Hamlet (category Kronborg)
    Shakespeare. ISBN 978-1-4725-3893-2. "Jude Law to play Hamlet at 'home' Kronborg Castle". The Daily Mirror. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009. Davies...
    147 KB (17,631 words) - 14:04, 11 June 2024
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    Christiansborg Farumgård Fredensborg Frederiksberg Frederiksborg Jægerspris Kronborg Rosenborg Selsø Sorgenfri Svanholm West and South Zealand Borreby Bregentved...
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    of the room is the work of Meldahl's pupil, Carl Brummer. The original tapestries depicting important events in the life of Christian IV were woven in Karel...
    32 KB (3,912 words) - 10:31, 21 May 2024
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    them, sack and Madeira wine. On 19 February 1590, James VI wrote from Kronborg to his Privy Council, urging them to forward preparation for his return...
    79 KB (11,245 words) - 12:49, 17 June 2024
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    toll or Sound Dues at Helsingør. He took part in a wedding ceremony at Kronborg on 20 August 1589 which involved him sitting on Anne of Denmark's bed as...
    15 KB (1,950 words) - 17:12, 5 March 2024
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    for the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen and the cartoons for the Queen’s tapestries in the Danish parliament by Bjørn Nørgaard. The museum opened in 1977...
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  • subsequent return. He brought King James's letter written on 19 February at Kronborg to the Privy Council and his request that the Provost of Edinburgh, John...
    32 KB (4,174 words) - 04:59, 30 March 2024
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    the local parish church. Børglum displays a modern copy of the Bayeux Tapestry. The Børglum River in North Greenland was named after the abbey by Arctic...
    9 KB (1,197 words) - 13:28, 20 December 2022
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    of Frederiksborg for his officers and servants. They stayed longer at Kronborg and the captain and servants there were given 2,000 dalers. Some selected...
    52 KB (7,349 words) - 10:50, 16 June 2024
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    entertain his Danish guests. On 19 February 1590, James VI wrote from Kronborg to his Privy Council, urging them to keep good order in Scotland and forward...
    72 KB (9,714 words) - 18:10, 17 May 2024