Harald Bluetooth’s Guild appoints its first honorary member
In connection with the state visit of Iceland's President Halla Tómasdóttir to Denmark on 8 and 9 October 2024, the President and Björn Skúlason held a return event on 9 October at Nordatlantens Brygge with the participation of The King and Queen and Princess Benedikte. At this event, the Guild's International Ambassador Hasse Ferrold had the great pleasure of being able to convey the appointment of President Halla Tómasdóttir as an Honorary Member of Harald Bluetooth's Guild. The president received a Guild Letter and the Guild's PIN. See more about the state visit on the Icelandic president's website Forseti.is , with photos of Hasse Ferrold, as well as on Hasse Ferrold's own website
https://hasseferrold.blogspot.com/2024/10/fotos-hasse-ferrold-islands-prsidentpar.html
Admission on 1 October 2024
At the last member admission of the year, we reached 55 newly admitted members in 2024.
Photo: From the left Gao Zhipeng, Henrik Dan Jensen, Kasper Ninn Johansen, Libuse Ellingerova, Jiri Ellinger, Vibeke Riemer, Lars Kolind, Henrik Brandt, Beate Cecilie Stampe-Terkildsen and Dan Stampe-Terkildsen.
Collaboration
Photo: The participants in front of the longhouse at the Viking castle.
Harald Bluetooth's Guild has initiated a collaboration with Skælskør Business Association. This was marked at a fully subscribed member event on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at Trelleborg.
The members of the business association arrived with a vintage bus from the Danish Bus Museum.
Photo: The veteran bus from Skælskør arrives in Trelleborg.
Photo: Museum director Anne-Christian Frank Larsen tells.
Admission on 13 September 2024
Harald Bluetooth Guild had the pleasure to welcome our partners in the Danish-Irish Youth Exchange program and took the opportunity to inaugurate the 8 members from Waterford Rotary in the Guild.
Admission on 10 September 2024
Photo: From the left Regitze Siggaard, Søren Hansen, Shefali Ranthe, Per Brix, Qi Savanna Liu, Allan Strudahl og Stig Boisen Fritz-Rasmussen.
Festive afternoon
The Ambassador of Egypt, Mohamed Karin Sharif and mrs Ola Fahmy had invited members of Harald Bluetooth Guild for a cosy afternoon the 6th of September at his residence, The Egyptian House.
Close to 40 members of the Guild participated with great enjoyment in this event and all highly expressed their appreciation for the kind hospitality of the ambassador.
Photos: Hasse Ferrold
Meeting with the Egyptian ambassador
Dear members of the Harald Bluetooth Guild
I would like to warmly encourage you to consider the opportunity to participate in this positive invitation from Ambassador Mohamed Karin Fouad Sherif to a Harald Bluetooth meeting at the Egyptian House, Strandøre 8B, 2100 Copenhagen.
The meeting will be held on September 6 at 16.00-18.00.
We have been given the opportunity to offer free bus transportation from Slagelse and back to our first meeting held in Copenhagen.
Please respond by August 28 to
oldermanden@haraldblaatand.dk
Viking greeting
Finn Berggren
Oldermanden
Admission on 21 August 2024
On 21 August 2024, Harald Bluetooth's Guild admitted 7 new members. The inauguration took place in Hedebyhuset.
Photo: From left Alderman Finn Berggren, Guild Board members Anette Borg and Lis Tribler, guest Hans Hermansen, new members Ann-Katrine Karoff, Ole E Hansen, Kimberly Jensen, Christian Bille, guest Martin Jensen, new members Dorte Jensen and Christen Jensen, and Guild Board member Jacob Stryhn.
Cancellation
The Board of Harald Bluetooth Guild regrets to inform you of the following:
As announced, we have planned a celebration of our 10th anniversary in Harald Bluetooth Guild on Sunday 25 August 2024.
Several of the members in Harald Bluetooth Guild have already shown their positive support and announced their participation.
However, as a result of external conditions over which we have no influence, it has proved impossible to carry out the celebration in a dignified way.
It is with great regret that we must therefore inform you that the event cannot be carried out.
Viking greetings from the Board of the Guild
Finn Berggren, Alderman, Jens Grønkjær, Chairman,
Svend Erik Kristensen, Vice Chairman, Lis Tribler, Treasurer,
Jacob Stryhn, boardmember, Anette Borg, boardmember,
Birgitte Dinesen, boardmember and Knud Vincents, boardmember
The Viking Arnulf
At the inauguration on July 15, 2024, we met our member, author Susanne Clod Pedersen, who sold her books about the Viking Arnulf from a Viking stand at Trelleborg. There are now 9 books in the collection.
Photo: Susanne Clod Pedersen and our American member Bruce Bro, whose family originates from the area north of Ringkøbing.
