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KIÓBENHAVN. - COPENHAGEN.
JLn
the m ost ancient chronicles and docum ents the
p resent city o f
Kiobenhavn
is styled only by
its last syllable
flcivn
(the h av en ).
B u t as trad e
in creased , and m erchan t vessels frequented th at
harb o u r, the place w as called
Kiobmcendhavn
(the
haven of m erc h an ts); w h ic h , by e llip sis, h as been
converted into
Kiobenhavn
, its p resen t nam e. B y
other nations, as the E nglish and G erm an, it is called
Copenhagen,
a n d , by the French,
Copenhague.
T he natives o f Iceland still call it
Kaupmannahofn.
Its L atin nam e has a lw ay s been
Hafnia.
In
p oetry we m eet w ith it as
Axel-stad
(the city o f
Axel).
In the y e ar 116 4, K ing W ald em a r the F irst
m ade a g ra n t o f this tow n with the adjoining lan d s