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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
CHAPTER V.
Constitution of Veile— Queen Thyre the pride of the Danes — King
Christian and Mogens Munk — Tradition of Queen Gunhild — Scotch
right of pit and gallows — Peter, the Friesland Corsair — Cattle
fair — Jellinge —Stones of King Gorm the Old and his Queen—Reign
of King Frode the Good — Valley of the Greis — Russian princesses
at Horsens—Torfæus the Icelander—Family sobriquets Page 62
CHAPTER VI.
Death of Queen Dagmar at Skanderborg — Christian IV. a naval
commander — Hans the princes’ chastiser — A wife of Harald Blue-Tooth
— St. Clement patron of Aarhuus — Reformation in Denmark —
Superstition of the clergy — Legend of St. Niels .. .. 78
CHAPTER VIL
Island of Samsø — Denmark’s only duke — Entombed Bersærcks —
Amateur ploughing of Christian IV. — The witches on St. John’s Eve
— Sprogø the Danish Jericho — Korsør — Peter Skram and the
mermaid — Legend of the two church-towers — Absalon the warrior
archbishop and statesman — University and royal tombs at Sorø —
Ringsted, the Westminster of the Valdemars — Sepulchral brass of
Erik and Ingeborg — Tombs of Queen Dagmar and Berengaria 90
CHAPTER VIII.
Roeskilde — Bishop William and King Svend — Tombs of Queen
Margaret and her successors — Dorothea, wife of two kings — Queen
Juliana of Brunswick — Pilgrimage of James I. to Roeskilde .. 110
CHAPTER IX.
Copenhagen — Slagheck, the barber archbishop — Sigbrit, the maitresse
mere — Education of Christian II.—Yule pig or money-box —
Foundation of Copenhagen—Marriage of Queen Margaret — Her
governess and castigatrix — Queen Philippa of England — Her
gallant defence of the city — Palace of Christiansborg — The
Exchange .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. 121
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