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 Bede, Cuthbert
"Are you afraid of the water?" asked my brisk uncle from Fünen one day.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
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 Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
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 Nuttall, P. Austin
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
The bones of Koelbjerg Man, recovered in 1941 on the Danish island of Funen, date to 8000 B.C.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
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
Funen, the island which lies between the Great and Little Belts, is known as the "Garden of Denmark," on account of its beauty and fertility.
From Denmark by Thomson, M. Pearson
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