H.P. Pedersen-Dans statue of Holger Danske at Kronborg castle, Denmark

Ogier the Dane (Holger Danske) is a fictional Danish hero who first appears in the Old French chanson de geste. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... HERO has multiple meanings. ... Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue doïl, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D... The chansons de geste, Old French for songs of heroic deeds, are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature. ...

According to his legend, he was the son of Geoffrey (the historical Gudfred), king of Denmark. In one account, he had a son who was slain by Charlot, son of Charlemagne; seeking revenge, he sought out and slew Charlot, and was only barely prevented from killing Charlemagne himself. He resisted Charlemagne for seven years, but made peace with him in order to fight at Charlemagne's side against the Saracens, in which battle he slew the giant Brehus. A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. ... King Godfrid (804-810) was the younger son of King Sigfred. ... Charlot is the French version of Charlie Chaplins character The Tramp. ... Charlemagne (742 or 747 – 28 January 814) (also Charles the Great; from Latin, Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus), son of King Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, was the king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and king of the Lombards from 774 to 781. ... Revenge or vengeance consists of retaliation against a person or group in response to perceived wrongdoing. ... The term Saracen comes from Greek sarakenoi. ... The mythology and legendarium of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. ...

There may be a dim flicker of history in the tale, in that Danish sources reveal that in around 800, while Charlemagne's empire was at its peak, a Danish king named Godfred or Godfrid made successful war against Frankish expansion into Frisia and Schleswig for many years. After a long stalemate, peace is declared between the two rulers. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: History History studies the past in human terms. ... Events December 25, Rome, coronation of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as emperor by Pope Leo III. Celtic monks begin work on the Book of Kells on the Island of Iona. ... Frisia (known in German and Dutch as Friesland) is a region along the southeastern coasts of the North Sea. ... The region of Schleswig (former English name: Sleswick, Danish: Sønderjylland or Slesvig, Low German: Sleswig, North Frisian: Slaswik or Sleesweg) covers the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark. ...

Like Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Wenceslas and King Arthur, in Danish legend Ogier becomes a king in the mountain; he is said to dwell in the castle of Kronborg, his beard grown down to the floor, and to sleep there until some date when Denmark is in mortal danger, at which time he will rise up and deliver the nation. Frederick in a 13th century Chronicle Frederick I (German: Friedrich I. von Hohenstaufen)(1122 – June 10, 1190), also known as Friedrich Barbarossa (Frederick Redbeard) was elected king of Germany on March 4, 1152 and crowned Holy Roman Emperor on June 18, 1155. ... Wenceslas (or Wenceslaus; Czech: Václav; German: Wenzel), styled Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia (b. ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... Frederick sends out the boy to see whether the ravens still fly. ... Kronborg Castle as seen from the sea Kronborg Castle is situated near the town of Elsinore (Danish Helsingør) on the extreme tip of Zealand at the narrowest point of the Oresund (Danish Øresund), the sound between Denmark and Sweden. ...

Poul Anderson's contemporary fantasy novel Three Hearts and Three Lions (ISBN 0671721860) is, in part, a modern retelling of the Ogier story, in which its protagonist Holger Carlsen (a Danish resistance fighter) is transported to an allegorical fantasy world. Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was a prolific science fiction author of the genres Golden Age; some of his short stories were first published using the pseudonyms A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, and Winston P. Sanders. Poul Anderson also wrote fantasy such as the King... Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... The protagonist is the central figure of a story, and is often referred to as a storys main character. ... A resistance movement is a group dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country. ...