Fünen
noun
German name of Fyn.
Fünen
American
[fy-nuhn]
/ ˈfü nən /
noun
Funen
British
/ ˈfuːnən /
noun
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Once Brecht settled with his family on the island of Fünen, in Denmark, he set to work in a whitewashed stable.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2019
The Danes were mainly in Jutland, Fünen, and the extreme south of Scandinavia.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
The two largest islands are Fünen and Seeland, which are separated by the Great Belt, and the former from the main land by the Little Belt.
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic
I had hurried across the heath, and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the Island of Fünen, and now I drove over the Great Belt, groaning and sighing.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
Belt, Great and Little, gateways of the Baltic: the Great between Zealand and Fünen, 15 m. broad; the Little, between Fünen and Jutland, half as broad; both 70 m. long, the former of great depth.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
The Great Belt is the strait between Denmark’s two largest islands, Zealand and Funen, and is part of the main shipping route between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
There are two more stages in Denmark this weekend, including crossing the Great Belt Bridge that links the Zealand island, where Copenhagen sits, and the central isle of Funen.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
In Denmark, strong winds prompted authorities to ban light vehicles from crossing the Storebælt tunnel and bridge linking the central island of Funen to Zealand, home to the capital, Copenhagen.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
Jens Faurschou grew up on the Danish island of Funen, to parents who weren’t big art-buyers but who had a ceramics collection.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
On the 14th, having been detained by contrary winds, I received accounts from Admiral Keats, that they had been withdrawn from the island of Funen, and landed on Langeland.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Sir John Ross
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