I started with a desire to share the tradition of the gække letter with my flist. This presented some challenges.

Of course, seeing as my flist is in the world of the Internet, the traditional approach with real letters were not really feasible - not least because I'm not even sure of the RL addresses of most of them. Therefore, whatever I did, I ( Read more... )

Denmark does not have a lot of cultural traditions that are unique to it. Mostly we share with our neighbours or the rest of the world. But the gække letter, a kind of riddle letters closely tied to Easter, is a uniquely Danish tradition.

The history of the gække letter dates back to the so-called "bindebreve", binding letters, ornately clipped and ( Read more... )

En vintergæk, en sommernar
En fugl foruden vinger
En lille ven som har dig kær
En kærlig hilsen bringer

Mit navn det står med prikker
Pas på de ikke stikker

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