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Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik - Part 9

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This topic continues from Part 8 about Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik. Please continue to post here. :SmilieHappy:

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The Regent Couple have visited Ribe on the ocassion of the town's 1.300 anniversary. I'll tell more about Ribe later, have to feed the children...

Here is a gallery from Billed Bladet.

http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...be%20-%201.aspx

This picture is interesting: http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...be%20-%205.aspx

Her dress indentify her as an umarried girl from the Viking Age.

Married women wore head scarfs as a sign of their status and often keys, while unmarried girls flaunted their hair.

The semi-long sleeves is no coincidence either. Bare forearms were sexy.

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A little more on Ribe.

Ribe were among the three major (known) trading centres in Scandinavia in the biginning of the Viking age. Hedeby and Birka being the two others.

If you look at a map, you see that Ribe is located some distance inland. Very simple because it was more practical and safe to place Ribe away from the coast and bad weather and not least raiders. The main threath came from the sea not land.

So Ribe was placed next to a small river, where the ships could be safe from the weather.

The interesting thing is that Ribe may not initially have been placed where it is now, it may very well have moved according to changes in the coastline.

Anyway, it was from Ribe you traded with the west and sometimes official raids would have been launched or at least financed from here. As such it would have been one of the most important town in Denmark at the time and the king would often have been here. Including King Canute (Knud), (you know, he who tried to command the waves and thus making a point) who ruled over what could have become a big northern European empire.

Centuries passed, the central government in the shape of the king became more powerful and more towns sprung up all over the country and by 11-1200's larger ships combined with increased competition from the emerging Hansa Leaque and other towns in Denmark, meant that Ribe wasn't located so well anymore. Ships now sailed to Aalborg, Århus, Skanderborg, Copenhagen or Randers from where they could sail further into the Baltic or offload goods and take on goods from the Baltic. The road system in DK was hardly worth writing home about and Ribe was left behind.

Nowadays, Ribe is a small charming medieval town, with narrow cobbled streets and centuries old houses with a cathedral as the natural centre. In the tourist season a night-watchman walk the streets carrying a lantern and a murderous looking morning star on a pole. When the clock strikes at the cathedral he sings that the time is say eleven and that all is well and hoping that God may preserve the peace and Ribe. - Just like his predecessors did 150 years ago.

There is a gallery from JyskeVestkysten http://www.jv.dk/artikel/924612:Esbjerg--S...?image=26#image

Here from the Viking Centre.

Notice the bow, it's similar in construction and style as the much more famous English longbow, albeit smaller. The Vikings certainly did not consider the use of a bow as being beneath their dignity, on the contrary, they regarded it as a very practical weapon. Not least for fighting onboard ships, which happened very often.

http://www.jv.dk/artikel/924612:Esbjerg--S...?image=29#image

Notice the woman on the left. She is married, even though she is nor wearing a headscarf. Wearing an apron with her hair tied up and all the bags and what not that signifies a busy housewife. And not least long sleeves as befits a decent, mature woman who deserve respect due to her status. The flirtatous days of her youth are over.

Women were not subserviant to their husbands as they were in the later Christian age. The wife ran the household with a firm hand! She would be in charge of the farm, when her husband was away, going Viking or whatever he was doing, that included any free male on the farm, with the exception of very close relatives of her husband. (There were always some men around, just in case). She naturally knew how to use a weapon, the concept of shieldmaidens was neither a myth nor a Joke. And as she was the one staying at home, she had the key to the money chest.

This picture is also very interesting: http://www.jv.dk/artikel/924612:Esbjerg--S...?image=30#image

The children are dressed up as people were around the Reformation (1530's). Notice the halbards carried by the boys, "bysvende" as they would have been called back then. Townspeople were not eligable to be drafted into the army, instead they were required to defend their town. Bysvende were either citizens who took turn policing the town, or more often young men, who apart from their dayjob also patrolled the city at night - and they had plenty to do! Drunkeness and brawls were very common. Life back then was much more violent than you may think.

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Summary of article in Billed Bladet #32, 2010.

Prinsen af Rømø - The Prince of Rømø.

Written by Ken Richter.

A decidely pregnant looking Prince Henrik visited the wadden sea around the island of Rømø at the south west coast of Jutland, not far from Schackenborg.

Here he was collecting oysters with some friends. (*) And a small feats was prepared in a tent.

Henrik is very fond of this part of DK. (**) He exclaimed two years ago: "Here I could live for the rest of my life".

This year he said: "I enjoy to come out to all nooks and crannies of the country, outside the big cities".

QMII's LiW added: "It's almost as when I gather mushrooms with the Queen at Trend. You get so preoccupied that you almost forget everything else and you do not keep an eye on where you are going at all. All the time a new mushroom turn up - in this case oysters - a bit further ahead and you just want to bring that home as well".

Henrik was here last time the day before the wedding between Joachim and our Marie with his sister, who is a nun. He said anumber of local islanders: "It's been a fantastic day and I hope I will some other time have the opportunity to give my family this utterly unique experience".

(*) Not for the first time. I remember an article a couple of years ago where he was absolutely enthusiastic about these oysters.

(**) He is not alone. When the tide is low you can walk for kilometres across the wadden sea. It's completely flat and the sky and horizon is endlessly far away. There are a multitude of birds there! Birds you won't see outside the wadden sea.

But, everything has a price. Each year cows, sheep and tourists are caught by the tide. You think you have plenty of time to walk to higher ground, but you don't realise how far out you are and suddenly you have to run. The water is cold, you won't make it to shore before hypothermia sets in.

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Thank you, Muhler for the expert and wonderfull translation.

Courtesy of P.P.E., Official website for Rømø & Wikipedia.

http://www.ppe-agency.com/show.php?zoektyp...arch=08-08-2010 Prince

A photogallery of PG Henrik's trip to Rømø and the Wadden Sea.

http://www.romo.dk/international/en-gb/men...romo-tonder.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadden_Sea

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THANK YOU - for planting that close-up in my head, just before bedtime. ;)

Wonder what my dreams will be like... :SmilieHappy:

I'm really sorry Muhler! You are right, I should not have posted those pictures before bedtime. That's tasteless.

Hope your night was not that bad. :rose::wub:

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Seeing this pic before breakfast isn't better ;)

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BT has an article about Henrik's dachshund Evita: http://www.bt.dk/royale/prins-henriks-hund...dt-til-psykolog

It got a lot of attention the last time she bit a guardsman. Not least in view of the attention regarding other dogs biting people in the public.

Anyway, the court has now confirmed that the dog is seeing experts in order to establish why she bites people and to teach her not to.

- About time, if you ask me!

Evita has bitten way too many people and I fear she has learned that biting people is acceptable, so it may be too late. But al least something is done.

It is so annoying when dog owners, in this case Henrik, do not live up to their responsibility. If the owner cannot or will not control their dog, well too bad, you should loose your dog, one way or another.

Get a budgie instead.

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I don't think it is ever to late to teach a dog something new. It is mostly the humans not being consequent enought because it is hard work :smilie_flagge14:

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The Queen as a Duck :jump:

http://www.billedbladet.dk/Kongelige/Artic...0And-figur.aspx

http://gramtrans.com/gt/url/?url=http%3A%2...d=translate_url

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Prince Henrik holds a King Python on his head- September 14, 2010

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