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Dane

People of Danish culture from Denmark and northern Germany. There are approximately 5 million speakers of Danish (including some in the USA), a Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European family. The Danes are known for their seafaring culture, which dates back to the Viking age of expansion between the 8th and 10th centuries.
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Search me and my dwelling; you will find nothing but three pound five of my own savings, which William Dane knows I have had these six months.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
The hero was a young Dane, who was going up among the fiords to seek his fortune in the northern fisheries; and by a process inevitable in youth I became identified with him, so that I adventured, and enjoyed, and suffered in his person throughout.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Not that I know much of ancient Danes, though I knew a modern Dane who did me out of ten pounds; but I remember once seeing a picture of some of those gentry, who, I take it, were a kind of white Zulus.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
 
 
 
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