When I read the headline, Mortensen to Speak at Event in Denmark, I had to ask, Does Aragorn speak Danish?:
Viggo Mortensen, who played King Aragorn in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, will be the main speaker at Denmark’s annual Fourth of July celebration.Mortensen, whose father emigrated to the United States, will speak at the annual Rebild festival in northern Denmark — billed as the biggest Fourth of July party outside of the United States.
Born in New York City, Mortensen spent several summers in Denmark as a teenager and speaks some Danish.
“All Danes consider him to be nearly Danish,” the organizers said in a statement Monday.
Mortensen will be joined by Etta Cameron, an 84-year-old American-born gospel and jazz singer who lives in the capital, Copenhagen.
Danes and descendants of emigrants have celebrated the U.S. Independence Day with barbecues, square dancing and country music outside Rebild, a village 155 miles northwest of Copenhagen, since 1912.