X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Læsø


Christian Kampmann

Christian Peter Georg Kampmann (July 24, 1939 in Hellerup – September 13, 1988 on Læsø) was a Danish writer and journalist.

Karin Michaëlis

In her youth Michaëlis was a private teacher for a few years, partly in Læsø and partly in a manor house north of Randers.

Læsø

In the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð, the god Thor comments that it was on Hlésey that he was attacked by and so fought "berserk women" or "brides of berserks" who had bewitched all of the men on the island.

According to the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Hlér is another name for the sea jötunn Ægir who, according to the same book, there held feasts for the gods.

SMS Brandenburg

On the night of 3 September, the entire fleet anchored off Læsø island to give the crews a rest.


Similar

Læsø |

Beach meadow

Large and well-developed meadows can primarily be found in the Wadden Sea, Limfjord and Isefjord areas and on the islands of Læsø and Lolland, but there are many other smaller beach meadows throughout this lowlying country.

Copenhagen Air Taxi

It provide a range of services, including operating regularly scheduled flights from Copenhagen Airport, Roskilde (ICAO: EKRK) to the Danish islands of Anholt and Læsø; managing the airfield on Anholt, and is also a major air taxi operator in Denmark, operating from EKRK.

Frederikshavn

Ferry service connects the town of Frederikshavn to the city of Oslo in Norway, Göteborg, in Sweden and to Læsø.


see also