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Lassen County Sheriff's Office
Lassen is a Danish and Norwegian patronymic surname meaning "son of Lars" (equivalent of Laurentius), and thus a parallel form of the more common surname Larsen. Notable people with the surname include: * Anders Lassen (1920–1945), a Danish recipient of the British Victoria Cross * Christian Lassen, a Norwegian-German orientalist * Clyde Everett Lassen, a United States Navy aviator and Medal of Honor recipient * Eduard Lassen, a Belgian composer * Erik Sætter-Lassen (1892–1966), a Danish sport shooter * Frederik Lassen, a Danish football player * Georg Lassen, a German former U-boat captain * Hans Christian Lassen, a Danish sprint canoer * Hartvig Lassen (1824–1897), a Norwegian editor and literary historian * Henrik Andreas Zetlitz Lassen, a Norwegian politician * Inger Lassen (1911–1957), a Danish film actress * Jean Elisabeth Lassen, a Canadian weightlifter * Justin Lassen, an American composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and remixer * Leigh Lassen, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Language
Danish (; , ) is a North Germanic language spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig, where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the ''East Norse'' dialect group, while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Norwegian Bokmål are classified as ''West Norse'' along with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish as "mainland (or ''continental'') Scandinavian", while I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
