Ah! The bracelet you talk of refreshes my memory. Those were called "beggar bracelets". Ironically only children from well-off families had them right after the war. There were all sorts of little silver pendants you could hang to it. bracelet
If you touched one of the tiny silver trinkets to admire it, you were supposed to give another one of those tiny silvers. ( does not explain the beggar thing imo )
That's nice you brought it up.

As for Denmark, with a friend I made the round of 'Jutland' on bike once. 600 miles. Once we had a beer ( ol )( forget the / that had to go through it) at noon and never made it up the next hill. Bikes and beer are the worst combination.