Denmark

DANISH FOLKLORE ARCHIVES

Dansk Folkemindesamling

The Danish Folklore Archives is the Danish archive of folkways and popular traditions. The archive was established in 1904 as a special collection under the Danish Royal Library. The archive preserves ordinary people's perception of life, memories, traditions, singing, music and everyday stories for posterity. Everyday is here immortalised to the benefit of future generations.

The Danish Folklore Archives does research in the culture of all communities, and the archive holds several hundred years' of documentation of the people and the society forming the background of Denmark as it is today.

Web

http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/dfs/index.html

http://www.kb.dk/da/nb/fag/dafos/index.html (Danish)

Address

The Royal Library

Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1

1221 Copenhagen K

Denmark