Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Denmark’s new royal coat of arms marks the end of a 400-year-long Swedish-Danish conflict

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par Martin Sunnqvist, Professor of Legal History, Lund University

King Frederick X of Denmark announced a change of the royal coat of arms on January 1 this year. This change was understood by many – rightly or wrongly – as an intervention in US president Donald Trump’s aspirations to enhance America’s influence over Greenland. However, more interestingly it put an end to a 17th-century Swedish-Danish conflict.

While many headlines have read along similar lines to LBC’s “Danish…

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