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Digital Libraries and Collections
- An excellent source with dozens of links to Norse chronicles, histories, sagas, eddas, and other texts.
- Database of censuses and other demographic data.
- (Danish, English and German)
- Danish page of the World Documents Library.
- (photos; facsimiles)
- Electronic resources and the Danish National Digital Library.
- Includes e-books, digitized manuscripts, journals, databases, images, etc.
- (Facsimiles)
- Various archive collections relating to history of Denmark.
- Church books
- Census records
- Find Your Relatives
- Find a Property
- Jutland and Duchies
- Aids
- Other Collections
- (Danish facsimiles)
- A volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.
- (English and Swedish interface with transcriptions/facsimiles also in German, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, etc)
- Danish history online, including artifacts from ongoing exhibits.
- (Photographs & facsimiles)
- Over 35,000,000 newspapers available; including newspapers from the Danish West Indies
- (facsimiles)
- (Faroese facsimiles)
- Collection of historical maps of Denmark.
- (facsimiles)
- Collection of historical maps of Europe.
- (facsimiles; Hungarian)
- Genealogical resource.
- Thousands of North Frisians crossed the oceans in the last nearly 400 years to an unknown New World, and many found a new home overseas. The databank of the North Frisian Emigrant-Archive contains already information of approximately 5000 emigrants from North Frisia and the north-western part of the former duchy Schleswig, now a part of Denmark.
- (17th century- ; English interface)
- Dansk Militaer Historie / Danish Military History
- (1563-1945; Danish facsimile documents, images & transcriptions)
- Utflykten: A History of Nordic Travel
- (16th to 20th centuries; facsimiles, transcriptions, maps, etc.)
- A well-annotated documentation of ships and the men aboard them.
- Also available in the Danish original.
- (1801-2001; transcriptions, commentary, bibliographies, data lists)
Photographs
- A historical archive of Danish images searchable by database.
- (Photographs & facsimiles)
- Images in the National Library, searchable through an English-language interface.
- Not all available images digitized yet...
- (Photographs & facsimiles)
Maps
- Provided by the Latvian National Library
- (16th to 18th centuries; map facsimiles and descriptions)
- Collection of historical maps of Denmark.
- (facsimiles)
Coats of Arms
- (Facsimiles).
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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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