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