Category: Denmark

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THE HAPPY FAMILY by Hans Christian Andersen

Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one’s head in rainy weather,...

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THE OLD HOUSE by Hans Christian Andersen

In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house—it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on which the date of the...

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THE BELL by Hans Christian Andersen

People said “The Evening Bell is sounding, the sun is setting.” For a strange wondrous tone was heard in the narrow streets of a large town. It was like the sound of a church-bell:...

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THE ELDERBUSH by Hans Christian Andersen

Once upon a time there was a little boy who had taken cold. He had gone out and got his feet wet; though nobody could imagine how it had happened, for it was quite...

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THE LEAP-FROG by Hans Christian Andersen

A Flea, a Grasshopper, and a Leap-frog once wanted to see which could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and everybody else besides who chose to come to see the festival. Three...

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THE SNOW QUEEN by Hans Christian Andersen (includes Audio)

Do you remember my friend Lukas, who is going by bike from Sweden to Austria? I mentioned him and his blog in my post The two Frogs. By now he reached Denmark and what would be more...