Bornholm, Danish island in the Baltic Sea, 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Copenhagen and 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Sweden. Once a Viking stronghold, independent until the 10th century, it was controlled by Sweden and then, in the 16th century, by Lübeck (a German city of the Hanseatic League). ...

The Burgundians were a Scandinavian people whose original homeland lay on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea, where the island of Bornholm (Burgundarholm in...

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Johan Nicolai Madvig (born Aug. 7, 1804, Bornholm, Den.—died Dec. 12, 1886, Copenhagen) was a classical scholar and Danish government official who published many works...