Planning your European summer getaway, but asking yourself, which European country is best for the summer? Well, that really depends on what you’re looking for.
Dezeen Showroom: with warmer months around the corner, we've spotlighted various outdoor furnishings on Dezeen Showroom including garden seating, domes, lighting and planters The selection includes a series of classic chairs redesigned for use outside by True Design, oversized planters informed by the smooth shapes of pebbles by Yabu Pushelberg for Indigenus, and a metal
While we are nowhere near the tipping point, there are many cities, especially here in Europe, that are redefining their urban development and scaling back their planning to something more…
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Originally, like many other European peoples, Danes used only personal names and patronymics. Thus, Peter son of Rasmus would usually bear the name Peter Rasmussen , the -sen particle being a drifted version of
søn ( son ). A daughter would use -datter instead.
The first people in Denmark to acquire actual family names were, unsurprisingly, the nobility. In 1526, King Frederik I decreed that, henceforth, all noble families were to bear a family name. Many of these families already had
de facto family names, based on the symbols on their coats of arms(e.g. Gyldenstjerne, Marsvin, Oxe, Munk, etc.), which had been in use for some time.