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Chap. IV.
KOLDING.
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greatly prized in London, and the world wonders why
they are not more to be met with. Thi^ is simply an
affair of training. In the north of Germany, whence
these horses are chiefly imported, you may frequently
see the animals exercising on the high roads,
caparisoned like the knight’s charger of old, with heavy
clothing, wearing no blinkers, but large spectacles.
These spectacles are strong magnifiers, and each pebble,
to the eyes of the deluded quadruped, appears as a
granite boulder, so in his youth and ignorance he lifts
up his legs high in the air to avoid their contact, and
thus contracts that habit of high stepping so much
admired, and for which amateurs pay unheard-of prices.
KOLDING.
The majestic ruins of Kolding appeared in the
distance, with the little town nestling at its feet, long
before we arrived within its walls. The days are still
long, and the distances short, so we determined to rest
for a couple of hours, and then continue our journey to
Veile the same evening.
The castle, one of the most ancient in Jutland, called
in earlier days Ørnsborg or Eagle Castle, was built by
our restless acquaintance bad King Abel,: it is now a
blackened ruin, having fallen, like most of the palaces of
Denmark, a victim to the scourge of fire during the
occupation of Bernadotte. The lofty donjon tower, which rises
proudly from the further side, stands still surmounted
by two stone figures of warriors in full armour, such as
are sometimes to be met with on the Border towers of
Scotland. The building itself, of immense extent, is
uniform, and devoid of beauty as a ruin save one
Renaissance doorway, the entrance to the now roofless chapel.
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