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Danish Boys Activites


Figure 1.-- We do not have much information on Danish play and games. As far as we know the games played were largely the same as Germany. We do not know of any destinctive Danish games. Here we ee Danish children playing a ring game, we think in the 1910s.

An interesting section of our website is the activities section. Here we archive the various activitities in which boys pursued in different countries and the clothes they wore for those pursuits. We have some limited information on childhood activities in Denmark. Our assessment is somewhat impaired by the fact that Denmark is such a small country and as a result the photographic record is relatively small. School of course is the primary activty pusued by children. We do have a school section. We do not yet have a complete holiday section, but we do have a Christmas page. We do not have much information on play and games. As far as we know the games played were largely the same as Germany. We do not know of any destinctive Danish games. The primary sport is soccer, as is the case in most of Europe. Children might enjpy outings to parks. Tivoli or Tivoli Gardens, is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagenk. The park opened (August 1843) and is the third-oldest still operating amusement park in the world (after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg, and Wurstelprater in Vienna, Austria.) It is still the most visited amusement park in Scandinavia and second-most popular seasonal amusement park in the world after Europa-Park. The other popular park near Copenhagen is Dyrehaven (Jgersborg Dyrehave) the Royal Forest Klampenborg. It is a large forested park north of Copenhagen. The park is noted for its mixture of huge, ancient oak trees and large populations of red and fallow deer. We notice Danish boys enjoying summer camping. We do not know a lot asbout summer camping in Denmark, but it probably developed in the inter-War period. Religion was an important activity in Denmark. The country became Protestant early in the Reformation. Like much of Europe, religion today has much less importance than ikn the past. The principal youth group is the Scouts. Hopefully our Danish readers will provide information about boyhood activities in Denmark.







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