3rd Danish Citys name isnt a Danish city

[WizKid]

the city name sounds more like chinese or korean to me.

[WNxManiacMan]

You can see all the Danish city names here: http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Danish_(Civ5)

Kaupang (Old Norse word for a market-place and an old Norwegian settlement)

[mvon007]

Which is fine, given that the Danish here are really representing the Vikings.

[Twelvefield]

Yes, those indomitable ski vikings that rained down terror from the majestic peaks of the Danish Alps. That's why there's Danish Alpine Ski Infantry, right? On account of the mountain Vikings in Denmark? The mighty Mount Møllehøj, the highest elevation in all of Denmark, scraping the clouds at an oxygen-deprived 171 metres above sea level, almost 100 full metres taller than Vatican Hill, but only just 8,677 meters short of Mount Everest (barely squeaking by the dizzy heights of altitudinous Denmark to be the tallest rock on Earth) ?

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and it's not just the lucky almond at the bottom of the bowl of risalamande, which to my mind should have been Denmark's UU.

Møllehøj, if you are curious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B8lleh%C3%B8j

Then come to Canada and see some real mountains:

http://shyluk.blogspot.ca/2010/07/172-fire-mountain.html

http://shyluk.blogspot.ca/2012/05/582-roche-perdrix.html

But not so much France:

http://shyluk.blogspot.ca/2011/06/396-thus-i-refute-tony.html

[mvon007]

Hey, I thought Himmelbjerget was the highest one ... damn only 147 metres ><. I remember now, it was the centre point of the country we passed, not the highest.

[Matthew]

The ski Infantry are actually Finnish/Norwegian, right?

Just another one of those Civs that represents an entire area and thrown under a single name. Like the Celts. Who are Scottish. Or Irish. Or Celtish. Not really sure at this point, to be honest.

[Twelvefield]

The ski infantry are supposed to be Norwegian, I think. Denmark in Civ V isn't today's Denmark, what with the terse, beautiful, snooty citizens and the aforementioned risalamande deadly to all who are lactose intolerant or who live in close quarters with such people, but rather the trade-and-conquer Hanseatic Denmark that beguiled Shakespeare and owned a massive chunk of Europe. Harald Bluetooth's bio in Civ V talks about how Denmark at one point conquered Norway, but I am in the dark regarding that. I assume that's where Denmark would acquire the rights to alpine infantry.

And then there's the Vikings... but that is a story for another day.

[Kaedal]

Originally posted by matthewameluxen:

The ski Infantry are actually Finnish/Norwegian, right?

Just another one of those Civs that represents an entire area and thrown under a single name. Like the Celts. Who are Scottish. Or Irish. Or Celtish. Not really sure at this point, to be honest.

Denmark has, at different points in history, included parts of both modern Norway and Sweden. Not in the period of the Norse, though, so that's a bit of a historical ♥♥♥♥ up on Firaxis' part.

[mvon007]

Or an excuse to not make a Norwegian civ? Or Finnish for that matter :). Mind you, one of Sweden's cities is Helsinki, so I guess they have them both covered.

[RayeGunn]

Originally posted by Twelvefield:

The ski infantry are supposed to be Norwegian, I think. Denmark in Civ V isn't today's Denmark, what with the terse, beautiful, snooty citizens and the aforementioned risalamande deadly to all who are lactose intolerant or who live in close quarters with such people, but rather the trade-and-conquer Hanseatic Denmark that beguiled Shakespeare and owned a massive chunk of Europe. Harald Bluetooth's bio in Civ V talks about how Denmark at one point conquered Norway, but I am in the dark regarding that. I assume that's where Denmark would acquire the rights to alpine infantry.

And then there's the Vikings... but that is a story for another day.

Is your family Danish? I don't think I've ever seen a non-Dane know what risalamande (mmmmm...) was. (I am Canadian, but come from a Danish family)

and... yeah, it says Denmark, but if you really look at it, it's really the 'Scandinavia' or 'viking' civilization, there's stuff in there that's Norwegian... similarly, the Sweden civ incorporates some Finnish stuff. But all those countries had a lot of cultural crossover in the past, so it's understandable.

[Twelvefield]

This is what I mean by snooty Danes. Smiley-faced emoticon goes here.

But no, I am as Danish as Chairman Mao, and proud of it. Just because I am 0% Danish does not mean I cannot sample what other cultures have to offer. Or have their culture forced on me at a very uncomfortable dinner table during the holidays. I've only recently discovered, for example, that glühwein is not supposed to taste like turpentine with a cinnamon stick. I blame my terse, beautiful, 100% snooty Danish friends and their lack of culinary skills for both the unfortunate glühwein debacle as well as the horrifying risalamande denouement. I am certain there are Danes who can cook, because without them certain parts of Scandinavia would have starved to death long ago.

[WizKid]

Ofcourse there are danes that can cook :-) in 2011 a danish cook named Rasmus Kofoed won the Bocuse d’Or (Word championship for chefs so to speak) but there are bad cooks in every country

[WizKid]

Haralds son was ruler of Denmark, Norway and England btw