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The source is named after the famous scientist and natural philosopher Hans
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Kodalen (Cow Valley), probably because by the royal edict of 1658 the peasants had obtained rights to free grazing for their cattle there. The first time the name Ekkodalen appears on a map was in 1746 when someone added EC before Kodalen changing it to Eckodalen.
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wrote in 1893: "Almindingen's most famous area is
Kodalen, or, as the fine variant has it: Ekkodalen. It is equally entitled to both names as the fresh turf in the broad meadows lining the valley is just as enticing for the cows as its remarkable echo is alluring for the joyful visitors to the
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forest. From time to time, a gun shot rolls through the valley. You stop and listen; a new shot - and then you realize it is the hatch to "Ørsted's Well" that energetic youths are using as a cannon, whose sound waves bounce back from the steep rocky walls with a tenfold echo."
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870:55.10944°N 14.90194°E
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685:Svanemøllen
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479:St. Peter's
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858:55°06′34″N
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532:Bornholmsk
474:Østermarie
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121:References
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585:Gamleborg
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293:Pedersker
283:Østerlars
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390:Churches
374:Stenseby
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174:Bornholm
98:The echo
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248:Gudhjem
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