Denmark 1397 - 1814

EuroDocs > History of Denmark: Primary Documents > 1397 - 1814

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• Soundtoll Registers Online = Øresundstoldregnskaber

Accounts of the toll which the king of Denmark levied on shipping through the Sound between Sweden and Denmark.

Important sources for research on economic and maritime trade history in Northern Europe.

(1497-1857; searchable datasets - registration may be required to view results)

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• Codex Esromensis

Online manuscript containing the 259 documents from the Esrum cloister archives at the end of the fifteenth century.

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• Heksejægeren

A total of three document collections from among the last witch trials in Denmark:

Kongen og Danske Kancelli 1686-1688 (Declarations of the King and Chancellery Officials)

Ebeltoft bytingsprotokol 1684-1694 (Minutes of the Ebeltoft local council)

Mette Madsdatters bekendelse, 6 juli 1686 (Mette Madsdatter's Confession)

Assembled by Gunner Lind, History Department, University of Copenhagen

(1684-1694; Danish transcriptions)

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• King Frederik III's Royal Code

(14 November 1665; transcription)

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• Royal Decrees and Letters of Christian V.

(1670-1699; facsimile of Schous Forordninger printed in 1795)

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• Naval History: Denmark

Comprising three English documents on Danish naval history:

List of the Danish Navy, in the year 1692

Capture of Copenhagen, 1807

The Late Danish Fleet

(1692-1807; English transcriptions)

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• Danske Konger -- og deres historie

Danish kings and their history.

Mostly secondary information and commentary, but with a time-table and images that could be valuable.

(1448-1863; Danish-language commentary and images)

A short update of monarchs 1863 to the present is on a separate page.

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• e-ressourcer og det Digitale Nationalbibliotek

Electronic resources and the Danish National Digital Library.

Includes e-books, digitized manuscripts, journals, databases, images, etc.

(Facsimiles)

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• Map of the Northern Realms Including the Kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, Norway

Map of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden around the beginning of the 18th century.

(Circa 1700; zoomable map)

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• Historical Text Archive: Denmark

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.

(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

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• Dansk Militaer Historie / Danish Military History

(1563-1945; Danish facsimile documents, images & transcriptions)

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• Danish Naval History

A well-annotated documentation of ships and the men aboard them.

Also available in the Danish original.

(1801-2001; transcriptions, commentary, bibliographies, data lists)

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• Grønlandsbeskrivelse

Description of Greenland.

Digitized by the Danish Royal Library together with the Skálholt-kortet.

(1669; facsimiles)

• Skálholt-kortet

Maps of the North Atlantic from "Vinland" to Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark.

Digitized by the Danish Royal Library together with the Grønlandsbeskrivelse.

(1570; facsimiles)

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• Over Øresund - Över Öresund

A cooperative Danish-Swedish project covering sources from both sides of the "Sound."

Pictures, postcards, maps, letters, guides to archival sources.

(1200-1913; facsimiles and guides)

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• Rådhuse under enevælden
  A detailed illustrative history of Danish city halls.
• Byporte under enevælden
  A detailed illustrative history of Danish city gates.

From Den Digitale Byport of the Danish Centre for Urban History.

With aspect searches (by chronology, civic function, location, architect, etc.).

(13th-19th centuries; annotated facsimiles of illustrations, photos and architectural plans)

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EuroDocs > History of Denmark: Primary Documents > 1397 - 1814

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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu