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CONTENTS OF VOL. I.
CHATTER XV.
The Danish language — Its difficulties —Its similarity to the English
— The Vikings true ancestors of English — Raven of Odin—The
Norman lion .. .. •• •• •• •• Page 226
CHAPTER XVI.
Museum of Northern Antiquities — The Age of Stone — Scandinavian
dust-hole — Age of Bronze; its artistic productions the work of
some Eastern tribe — Ornaments characteristic of the period —
Needles, and objects of the work-table — Bronze diadem—The
golden horns — The Age of Iron — Chain mail — Silver cup of Queen
Thyre — Swearing-rings — Bracteæ coins — Law of treasure trove —
The Catholic Era — Queen Dagmar’s cross — Crowns of the Northern
Brides .. .. .. •• •• •• •• •• 231
CHAPTER XVII.
Environs of Copenhagen — Baths of Marienlyst — Palnatoke, the
Danish William Tell — Receding foreheads of the eighteenth centiu’y
— Elsinore — The so-called Hamlet’s tomb — The Hammer-mills —
Grave of a Scandinavian dog—Legend of the cuckoo .. .. 257
CHAPTER XVIII.
The town of Elsinore — Story of Dyveke and Christian II.—Her death
— Execution of Oxe — Holger Dansk’s spectacles—-The fairy
Morgana— The castle of Kronborg — Embassy of Queen Elizabeth —
Marriage of James VI. of Scotland — His assumption of the Tudor
badges—Prison of Caroline Matilda—The “ green-bone ”—Anecdote
of a stork .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 271
CHAPTER XIX.
Expedition to Sweden — Helsingborg — Marriage of King Erik and
Ingeborg — Mineral waters of Ramløsa — Valdemar Atterdag and his
castle of Gurre — His impious speech — Queen Philippa reforms the
coinage — Destruction of the storks .. .. .. .. 295
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