Jutland eastern Denmark, and Jutlander speech remains a stereotype among many Copenhageners and eastern Danes. Jutland native Maren Madsen emigrated to the American town of Yarmouth, Maine, in the late 19th century. She wrote a memoir documenting the transition, titled "From Jutland's Brown Heather to the Land Across the Sea". She married Christian Christensen, with whom she had four children. Maren died in 1965, aged about 93. She and her family are all buried in Cumberland County, Maine. Jutland Jutland (; ; ), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (; ; ), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that
Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein King Christian II. Count Christopher's participation in the following two years of civil war named it the "Count's Feud." The Count's main objective was not Holsten but Zealand where he sailed and he quickly gained control of all Danish territory east of the Great Belt. On 4 July 1534 representatives of Jutlandic nobility and councillors met in Rye in eastern Jutland. Here the lesser nobility forced the bishops to nominate the Lutheran Christian, Duke of Slesvig and Holsten to the kingship. When the nobility of Funen joined them, Christian agreed and homage was paid to him as King Christian III