History of Danish

Fangær man saar i hor seng mæth annæns mansz kunæ.

The innovations spread unevenly from Denmark which created a series of minor dialectal boundaries, isoglosses, ranging from Zealand to Svealand.

The main text types written in this period are laws, which were formulated in the vernacular language to be accessible also to those who were not Latinate.

It is also in this period that Danish begins to take on the linguistic traits that differentiate it from Swedish and Norwegian, such as the stød and the voicing of many stop consonants.

Pedersen's orthographic choices set the de facto standard for subsequent writing in Danish.

Some notable authors of works in Danish are existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, prolific fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, and playwrights Henrik Ibsen[10] and Ludvig Holberg.

Three 20th-century Danish authors have become Nobel Prize laureates in Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan (joint recipients in 1917) and Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (awarded 1944).