Denmark

New Music 07/2020 – Eivør, Agnes Obel

July 14, 2020January 28, 2023yggdrasille

It’s the month of the Kingdom of Denmark! Featuring my new discovery from the Faroe Islands, and an old Danish favourite.

A Royal Affair – Film Review

November 4, 2018yggdrasille

I continued my recent Danish streak with this historical film about adultery and Enlightenment in the 18th century Denmark, which succeeds both as a sweeping romance and a tense political drama.

The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell – Book Review

June 12, 2016February 26, 2019yggdrasille

Another I-moved-to-another-country book, this one by a London woman who moved to Denmark after her husband got offered a job with Lego – and rather than exchanging one capital city for another, they move to the “real” Denmark, a tiny town of 6,100 in the rural Jutland (the European peninsula part of Denmark). Unlike many other books of the similar sort, which are rather rambling in nature and simply concern themselves with the author’s experiences in a foreign country, this one has an actual focus: uncovering the secrets of Danish happiness.