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Chap. IV.
CHRISTIANSFELD!.
57
If the accounts of the year 1417 be true, Haderslev
must have been a gloriously cheap place to live in:
butter is mentioned as being then sold at nine skillings a
ton, herrings at six skillings for the same weight, a cow
for six skillings, and Rostock beer for next to nothing;
still, as I find these years of cheapness to have
come quick on sundry black pests, inundations—in one
of which 100,000 are said to have perished in the
duchies alone — to say nothing of “ øpror ” and all
manner of uncomfortable events—I began to fancy, after
all, it is far better to pay somewhat dear for our
provisions and live in peace and quietness in the nineteenth
century.
Breakfast over in the private salon of our landlady—
for she would not allow us to feed in the common room,
but treated us with distinction as strangers, serving us
on her old Copenhagen china cups and saucers, painted
over with flowers of a roseate hue, wild anemones and
hepaticas, copied from the Flora Danica—we turned
up, as all lovers of porcelain would do, each separate
object to inspect the mark, three wavy blue lines
faithful representations—the two first
of the Greater and Little Belt, while the third does duty
for the Sound—and then we again started on our
journey.
CHRISTIAN SFELDT.
Our first stoppage was at Christiansfeldt, a small
Quaker-like town, founded, I believe, in the last
century, and inhabited almost exclusively by the
Moravian brethren. A book has lately appeared written by
a young lady educated in these schools, so we felt curious
to stop and visit the establishment. The professor was
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