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I never get tired of the blue sky.
Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.
Thank you.
#fujiwalkathome2020
From a stay-at-home photo walk (due to the general lock down in Denmark) set up for members of a Danish Facebook group - May 02, 2020.
ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
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(Re-post - from the archives)
Jutland, Jylland in Danish, is a peninsula to the west in the Danish geography. The coast to the west has helped much in forming the landscape - making the are along the area dominated by sand-dunes and heaths. The landscape is very flat and in some areas marshy too. The most northern part of Jutland, north of the Limfjord, was separated from the mainland by a flooding in 1825, making it technically an island - but it is still regarded as a part of Jutland.
Jutland, Jylland, was in the middle ages called "Iutland" - the land of the jyder. That word in turn probably comes from the word iuthær, meaning men. The Greek geographer called it Kimbrikē chersonēsos - the peninsula of the Cimbri - saying it was the home of the Teutons, Cimbri and Charudes.
The area is now one of the more sparsely populated regions of Denmark, and the Jutlandic dialect is famous for being hard to understand, even among Danes, especially in the western and northern parts of the peninsula.
The longships were characterized as a graceful, long, wide and light, with a shallow-draft hull designed for speed.
The ship's shallow draft allowed navigation in waters only one meter deep and permitted arbitrary beach landings, while its light weight enabled it to be carried over portages or used bottom-up for shelter in camps. Longships were also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ship to reverse direction quickly without a turn around; this trait proved particularly useful at northern latitudes, where icebergs and sea ice posed hazards to navigation.
Longships were fitted with oars along almost the entire length of the boat itself. Later versions had a rectangular sail on a single mast, which was used to replace or augment the effort of the rowers, particularly during long journeys.
The average speed of Viking ships varied from ship to ship, but lay in the range of 5–10 knots (9.3–18.5 km/h) and the maximum speed of a longship under favourable conditions was around 15 knots (28 km/h).
One longship in particular can be seen in Oslo, Norway in The Viking Ship museum.
Amalienborg is the home of the Danish royal family, and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It consists of four identical classical palace façades with rococo interiors around an octagonal courtyard.