Helsingør (Danish pronunciation: [hɛlseŋˈøɐ̯ˀ]; also known as Elsinore in English) is a city and the municipal seat of Helsingør municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand (Danish: Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. Helsingør has a population of 46,279 (1 January 2011) including the southern suburbs of Snekkersten and Espergærde. It is known internationally as the setting of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, whence the spelling ‘Elsinore’ originated.
The name is derived from the word “hals” meaning “neck” or “narrow strait”, referring to the narrow strait (Øresund) between what is now Helsingør and Helsingborg, Sweden. The Rerum Danicarum Historica (1631) claims that the history of Helsingør can be traced back to 70 BC, but this information is highly dubious. The people were mentioned as Helsinger (which may mean “the people of the strait”), for the first time in King Valdemar the Victorious’s Liber Census Daniæ from 1231, but they should not be confused with the Helsings of…
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