Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When piratical Sweyn Forkbeard I, King of Denmark, made his third invasion of England, 930 years ago, he arrived on the River Humber with his son Canute, conquered the country and was accepted as king. Before he could be crowned, according to one legend, Sweyn was stabbed to death at Thetford, Norfolk, by patriots of the ancient Anglo-Saxon "underground." Canute* got the throne...
...head of kneeling Johannes Gunnarsson, consecrated him Vicar Apostolic of Iceland, now burgeoning with U. S. troops. By their act they gave Ultima Thule its first native Roman Catholic Bishop in 393 years. Last one was Jon Arason. He and his two sons lost their heads in 1550 opposing Denmark's King Christian III and his edict that the island adopt the motherland's Lutheran faith...
...Bishop's family has roots deep in Iceland's volcanic soil and history. His grandfather was a leader in the Althing, Iceland's parliament, which dates back to 930. His father, who will be 90 in September, embraced Catholicism while attending school in Denmark. For 20 years he was Iceland's only native Catholic...
Bishop Gunnarsson got his early schooling from Icelandic Jesuits, continued it in Lutheran Denmark, later studied theology in Holland. Ordained in 1924, he returned to Reykjavik, took up his priestly duties at the Cathedral, which is the size of a U. S. Catholic parish church. There he will be enthroned when he returns from the U. S. shortly...
...mile route to Berlin. They are heavily defended, fortified for miles back of the beaches, served by railways and roads over which the Germans could quickly concentrate more than 50 divisions. "An invasion here does not seem advisable unless coupled with invasions at other points." One necessary point: Denmark...