The+Green+Knight

There was a King, a Queen, and their daughter/princess who lived in a castle. The Queen was very sick and was going to die. So the King made a promise to the Queen, and said that I will never tell our Princess no and I will fulfill all of her requests. So when the Queen died the Princess became very depressed and miserable and the only thing that would kind of make her happy is when she takes long walks in the forests by herself. Then one day as she was walking in the forest she saw a little house and she went and knocked on the door. Then a mom and a daughter answered the door and the Princess said "hi may I come in", and they said sure. The mom and the daughter knew that the princess’s father was the king and she wanted to marry him. So the mother and the daughter were being really nice to her and made her meals when she was hungry but then one day the mother and daughter said that they were leaving and going to live far away. Then the princess said no “you can’t leave me, if you leave I will die” said the princess. Then the mother said we will stay on one condition. Then the princess said anything you want, and then the mother said if your father marries me. Then the princess went back to the castle and told her dad but her dad said it will turn out bad and she said no it wont so then of course the father had to marry her because of the promise he made to his wife. So after they got married the step mother and the step sister would boss her around and be mean to her. Then the princess moved to one of her father’s islands and her father would visit her everyday. Then one day the princess asked her father to tell the Green Knight that she is longing for him. But the princess really meant the graveyard, no the person. So the father didn’t know that and then he went to the Green Knight and said my daughter is longing for you will you come and see her. Then the Green Knight said that he can’t go and see her but give her this green book and tell her to read one page when she is sad it will cheer her up. So the father gave his daughter the book and the princess ran up to her room and read a page and a bird flew in from the eastside window and it was the green knight. So the Green Knight and the princess talked for a while and everyday she read a page and the Green Knight came. The green knight made the daughter happy so she became more beautiful then the step mother realized this and put poison on a pair of scissors and put them right under her window. So when the Green Knight went to leave he flew to low and scraped his leg on the scissors and then after that he flew home with a struggle. So the Green Knight could not go there anymore when she read so she went to his Green Castle and said can I be a cook here I know what will make the Green Knight better and they said yes but you have to be the maid also and she agreed. So the princess made three soups and put three adders in each one so then the Green Knight ate the soups and was better and he asked who made these soups and the person in his room taking care of him said the new lady in the kitchen so he went to the kitchen and realized it was the princess. So they got married and the lived happily ever after and ruled the Green Castle.

Facts about Denmark
**Capital** ​Copenhagen **Total Area** //total:// 43,094 sq km //land:// 42,394 sq km //water:// 700 sq km //note:// includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland **Population** 5,432,335 (July 2005 est.) **Languages** Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) //note:// English is the predominant second language **Literacy** //total population:// 99.9% (1999 est.) //male:// NA% //female:// NA%

Evangelical Lutheran 95%, other Protestant and Roman Catholic 3%, Muslim 2%
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//total population:// 77.62 years //male:// 75.34 years //female:// 80.03 years (2005 est.)
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constitutional monarchy **Currency** Danish krone (DKK) **GDP (per capita)** purchasing power parity - $32,200 (2004 est.) **Labour Force** 2.87 million (2004 est.) **Exports** $73.06 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.) **Imports** $63.45 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.) **Natural Resources** petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, chalk, stone, gravel and sand **Telephones (main lines in use)** 3,610,100 (2003) **Telephones (mobile cellular)** 4,785,300 (2003) **Internet Service Providers (ISPs)**
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**The word ‘Denmark’ appears as early as the Viking age, carved on the great Jelling Stone from the 900s, but there’s a huge difference between what ‘Denmark’ comprised then and what it comprises today.
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In some eras, for instance the 13th and 17th centuries, Denmark was a superpower whose influence was as massive as that of the largest European countries.**

Very bluntly speaking, it can be claimed that the present configuration of Denmark is the result of 400 years of forced relinquishments of land, surrenders and lost battles.
 * Modern Denmark ** **

Crucial events took place in the mid-1800s. In 1848, absolutism had been abolished, whereby Denmark got a constitution and a parliament, but in 1864 Denmark suffered a crushing defeat to Prussia in the second Schleswig war and had to relinquish 40% of its land. The Danish population dropped from 2.6 million to 1.6 million. **


 * Homogenous society **
 * As a consequence of the defeat, Denmark became an almost completely ethnically homogenous society, in which the inhabitants – except the ones in Iceland (totally independent in 1944), the Faroe Islands and Greenland – shared language and culture.

Thus, the national boundaries of modern Denmark were more or less established by 1864, and the border between southern Jutland and Germany became fixed in 1920. **


 * After 1945 **
 * the neutral politics of Denmark ensured the country a smooth journey through World War I, but not through WW II, when Denmark was occupied by German forces 1940-45.

In 1949 Denmark was one of the founding members of NATO. In 1972 Denmark voted for joining the European Communities, EC (changed in 1993 to the European Union, EU).

Today Denmark – especially considering its relatively small size – is an active player on the international political scene. **

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