Kaspar proposes to Ingeborg with a poem, only for her to reveal that she is already engaged to the son of her father's best friend, and that the wedding will take place in August.

When Kaspar mentions the protagonist of Kristin Lavransdatter leaving her fiancé Simon to marry Erlend despite her father's objections, Ingeborg chooses to obey her own patriarch.

Forgetting his visit to Sigrid Undset, a heartbroken Kaspar returns to Denmark, writing sad poems and re-reading Kristin Lavransdatter.

When Kaspar breaks his thumb from tripping in Ingeborg's hair, she calls a now adult Veslemy, requesting for an urgent haircut.

In Copenhagen, Ingeborg gets a haircut, Kaspar inspires his fan, and Petter and Veslemy fall in love, becoming the narrator's parents.

Kove first became involved with the National Film Board, an agency of the Government of Canada, after her first year at Concordia University in Montreal.

Kove's first ideas for The Danish Poet began when she went through a period of self-assessment; she wanted to write a story about what she described as when "you reach a turning point or a milestone and you look back and you think 'how in the heck did I get here?'

[...] And you realize that the answer lies somewhere in a complex web of all kinds of stuff, like genetic make-up, upbringing, coincidences, choices you made along the way, missed opportunities, [and] lucky breaks.

Kove's inspiration was drawn from the fact that her existence seemed to hinge on that decision, because "if the artist had said, 'Oh, you must paint,' you know, then in all likelihood he would never have met my mother, and, you know, that would have been it for my chances.

[5] The film's main theme shows the effect that coincidence and chance can have on the course of life—like the bad weather, angry dog, hungry goats, slippery planks, and careless postman that change the course of both Kaspar's and Ingeborg's lives[8]—and shows, as the film's website states, that "seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.

[6] The Danish Poet also won Best Animated Short at the 27th Genie Awards in 2007, and a Norwegian-language picture book adaptation was nominated for the 2007 Brage Prize.