Front matter
Reading edition
BY
AN ANGLER
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1884
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved.)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
Introductory
1
CHAPTER II.
The Danish Parsonage—Trout fishing on the Gudenaa
11
CHAPTER III.
Rosendal
20
CHAPTER IV.
The Danish Church—The clerical party in Denmark
29
CHAPTER V.
Danish parishioners—The piano—English and Danish horses
37
CHAPTER VI.
Pike, perch, and eel fishing—A silver wedding at a Danish proprietor's
48
CHAPTER VII.
Danish horse-breeding—A fatal accident
60
CHAPTER VIII.
The superstition of the Huldr—The tradition of Gefion—Of Churches—The legend of the sunken mansion—Of the boar Limgrim
72
CHAPTER IX.
Kæmpehøie or tumuli—Hidden treasure—Ghosts—Spectral Huntsmen—Witches—Gypsies—The book of Cyprianus— Nissen—Elle folk
82
CHAPTER X.
The purchase of Rosendal—Pike fishing—Karl Lindal rides the English horse
93
CHAPTER XI.
The legend of the Damhest—The Helhest—The Kirkelam—The Gravso—Burying alive to propitiate supernatural power— Traditions of robbers—The Basilisk—The Lindorm— Lygtemænd
106
CHAPTER XII.
Horse racing in Denmark—A horse race
120
CHAPTER XIII.
Trout fishing in hot weather—Danish ladies riding—A practical visit to Rosendal
135
CHAPTER XIV.
Folketro—Havmænd—Havfruer—The gnome of the elder tree— Varulv—Marer—Strandvarsler—Kirkegrim
149
CHAPTER XV.
The Pastor and his daughter—The Scotch landscape gardener— Folkeviser
164
CHAPTER XVI.
Trout fishing—The legend of the Aamænd—Changelings—Wise men and wise women—Dværge—Tyge Brahe—Herr Eske Brok—The family Rosenkrands
177
CHAPTER XVII.
A drive through part of Jutland—Silkeborg—Himmelbjerg Traditions of Holger Danske—Walling sinners up
189
CHAPTER XVIII.
Horsens—Veile—Legends—The Swedes in Jutland—Hamlet— Abbot Muus—A found treasure—The priest at Urlev— Koldinghuus
201
CHAPTER XIX.
Holsted—Folke Eventyr—The story of the priest and his clerk— Of the queen who was walled up seventeen years—Of the Trold and the boy—Esbjerg
213
CHAPTER XX.
In England—Hardy Place—Mrs. Hardy—Correspondence with Denmark
224
CHAPTER XXI.
Mrs. Hardy visits Denmark—Helga Lindal—The yacht sails for Copenhagen
236
CHAPTER XXII.
Yachting from Copenhagen to Christiania—Helga Lindal's Birthday
251
CHAPTER XXIII.
Christiania to Aarhus—Pastor Lindal and the yacht—John Hardy's wedding-day is fixed—The Domkirke at Aarhus—Traditions and legends
265
CHAPTER XXIV.
Pastor Lindal joins the yacht for a cruise amongst the Danish islands—Samsø and traditions—Endelave and the giantess— Odense and its historical traditions—Nyborg—King Christian and the monkey—The ghost of Queen Helvig—Mærkedage —Svendborg—St. Jørgen and the Lindorm—The murdered lady—Weather days
279
CHAPTER XXV.
Vordingborg—Mariebo and traditions—Legend of Borre Island— Phanefjord and Grønsund—Legends of Phane and Grøn— The pilgrim stone—Drive to Møen's Klint—The Underjordiske —Margrethe Skælvig's wedding-dress—The twenty pigs and Gamle Erik—Præstø—Stevn's Klint—Hoierup—The termination "rup" explained—Copenhagen to Aarhus
293
CHAPTER XXVI.
Pastor Lindal's views as to his parish—His daughter's as to her wedding-dress—The marriage—John Hardy and his wife's arrival at Hardy Place—With the Pastor—A daughter-in-law's duty—Pastor Lindal's strong opinions on the English church system—
305
ARGUMENT.
The Viking, tenax propositi, if he planned an expedition, carried it out, through all obstacles, or died in the attempt. The descendants, softened in manner and cast of thought by centuries of time, retain the same singleness of purpose. There is no other thought of the duty of life except to do it. If self has to be sacrificed, it is done without reserve. The result is that there are men and women who are the reflection of duty, and although this occurs in all lands, yet nowhere does it exist in greater purity than in the descendants of the Viking.