On that day his four gunboats were escorting a small fleet of merchant ships from Udbyhøj at the mouth of Randers fjord southward to the island of Samsø when a British gunboat sought to raid the convoy.
"Samsey" (-ey being an earlier Norse form of -ø) is the island upon which Odin, under the name Jalk, learned Seid magic.
In 1677 Sophie Amalie was given the title Countess of Samsø, a title which chancellor Peder Griffenfeld had been deprived of after falling from favor.
Recent excavation on the island of Samsø by archaeologists of the National Museum of Denmark revealed acts of piracy attributed to Marsk Stig.
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She has performed in the filmatizations of the Jane Aamund's novels Klinkevals and Juliane as well as the Danish TV series Strisser på Samsø and De pokkers forældre.
Danneskiold-Samsøe is a Danish family of high nobility, formerly holding the island of Samsø as a fief.