Hamlet på Kronborg.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
Shakespeares skuespil Hamlet er henlagt til slottet i Elsinore; det engelske navn for Helsingør.
Etymology
A line spoken by Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act I.
Phrase[edit]
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Something is not right, rife with errors from top to bottom, leading to suspicion of motive.
“If the authorities knew about the problems and chose not to prevent them, then clearly something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Elsinore castle, Kronborg, slot hamlet, kronborg castle.