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Denmark. See also Dinamarca

Fishburn and Hughes: "Borges was an admirer of old Danish sagas: witness his comments on the Gesta Danorum, a work in sixteen volumes by the twelfth-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus.
In his discussion of this book, Borges remarks on the cruelty and intrepid horsemanship displayed by the Danes in their conquest of Ireland (Lit. germ., 190)." (59-60)