Devil's Birthday
The Devil's Birthday (Danish and Norwegian: Fandens fødselsdag) is a humorous term in Denmark and Norway referring to 19 mai [1][2] A royal decree by king Frederick III of Denmark issued 17 December 1656, ordered that loan repayments and payments of interests should take place on these dates.[3]
The term has been documented in written Danish since 1888.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Store norske leksikon: fandens fødselsdag
- ^ Den Store Danske: fanden
- ^ Nielsen, Oluf: Kjøbenhavns Historie og Beskrivelse 1885. Digitally available at: http://www.eremit.dk/ebog/khb/4/khb4_4.html Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Det var fandens sproget.dk
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