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“And so lewd,” added the dyer. “It never fails, if you
see the hangman’s man whipping a woman from town, and
you ask who’s the hussy, but they tell you she’s a Swedish
trull.”
“Ay, the blood of man is various, and the blood of
beasts, too. The Swede is to other people what the baboon
is among the dumb brutes. There’s such an unseemly
passion and raging heat in the humors of his body that the
natural intelligence which God in His mercy hath given all
human creatures cannot hinder his evil lusts and sinful
desires.”
The dyer nodded several times in affirmation of the
theories advanced by the trader. “Right you are, Erik
Lauritzen, right you are. The Swede is of a strange and peculiar
nature, different from other people. I can always smell,
when an outlandish man comes into my booth, whether
he’s a Swede or from some other country. There’s such
a rank odor about the Swedes—like goats or fish-lye. I’ve
often turned it over in my mind, and I make no doubt ’t is
as you say, ’t is the fumes of his lustful and bestial humors.
Ay, so it is.”
“Sure, it’s no witchcraft if Swedes and Turks smell
different from Christians!” spoke up an old woman who
stood near them.
“You’re drivelling, Mette Mustard,” interrupted the
dyer. “Don’t you know that Swedes are Christian folks?”
“Call ’em Christian, if you like, Gert Dyer, but Finns
and heathens and troll-men have never been Christians by
my prayer-book, and it’s true as gold what happened in
the time of King Christian, God rest his soul! when the
Swedes were in Jutland. There was a whole regiment of
’em marching one night at new moon, and at the stroke
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