To be or not to be Danish

Was Hamlet Danish? No says a new treatise on the name Hamlet - he was Irish! Archive.
Was Hamlet Danish? No says a new treatise on the name Hamlet - he was Irish! Archive.
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All is not well in the rotten state of Denmark, and a murder most foul is looming on the horizon for Denmark’s most famous literary son.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who Shakespeare immortalised in the tragedy at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, was apparently not a Dane at all – but an Irishman, at least according to Dr. Lisa Collinson, a specialist in Medieval Norse languages at Aberdeen University in Scotland.

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