Pontoppidan
[ pon-top-i-dahn ]
/ pɒnˈtɒp ɪˌdɑn /
noun
Hen·rik
[hen-reek] /ˈhɛn rik/,1857–1943,
Danish novelist: Nobel prize 1917.
Example sentences from the Web for pontoppidan
Of course the worthy bishop of Bergen, Pontoppidan, has something to tell us about mermaids in his part of the world.
He gave me a lesson out of Pontoppidan to learn, and now I'm to be heard.
Wanderers |Knut HamsunIt is easy to recognise in Pontoppidan's description of the Kraken, the form and habits of one of the "Cuttle-fishes," so-called.
But Pontoppidan evidently uses it as descriptive of all the cephalopods.
British Dictionary definitions for pontoppidan
Pontoppidan
/ (Danish pontˈtopidan) /
noun
Henrik. 1857–1943, Danish novelist and short-story writer, author of the novel sequences The Promised Land (1891–95), Lykke-Per (1898–1904), and The Empire of Death (1912–16). Nobel prize for literature 1917