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Slesvig
[ sles-vikh ]
Slesvig
/ ˈsleːsvi /
noun
- the Danish name for Schleswig
Example Sentences
So take your poor relation off, You pious-looking prig, And open out Kit Denmark’s box, And give him back Slesvig. p. 149Come, come, says Mrs. Europe, Let’s have no bother here, Your trying now to breed a row At least it does appear.
For Joseph he has not forgot The day you warmed his rig; And christian Denmark still thinks on About his nice Slesvig.
By it the Danes of Slesvig have been to a large extent robbed of their own language and national traditions.
Amongst other marks of distinction, Christian IV. had granted his wife and her children the title of Counts and Countesses of Slesvig and Holstein, but Fredrik III. declined to acknowledge it, although it could have no political importance, being nothing but an empty title, as neither Kirstine Munk nor her children had anything whatever to do with either of these principalities.
Our lady replied that she had not the pleasure of his acquaintance, and therefore she thought he took her for someone else; if she could oblige him in anything she would remain at Slesvig the following day, in order to know in what she could serve him.
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