Denmark Handwriting

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Handwriting

The FamilySearch offers free online lessons about reading old Danish handwriting:

• Scandinavian Handwriting, Part 1 - Old Scandinavian Script
• Scandinavian Handwriting, Part 3 - no part 2 available

Danske Slægtsforskere Odense (The Society of Danish Genealogists in Odense) has a site to help you learn to read gothic script online at Gotisk.dk.

See also Denmark Parish Register Headings, Nordic Handwriting, and Rigsarkivet Danmark's Gothic Script – an introduction.