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VEILE.
Chap. V.
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 Iris Queen—Reign
of King Frode the Good — Valley of the Greis — Russian Princesses
at Horsens — Torfæus the Icelander — Family sobriquets.
VE1LE.
We now approach (time it is we did too) some of the
fairest scenes of the old Jutland province.
The road undulates across hill aud dale, moor and
forest. Trim little white cottages, with their
black-painted timbers, peep out from amongst the trees. We
traverse a pine forest, the first we have seen since our
arrival in Denmark. The full moon shines bright; the
comet aloft, with his fiery tail resplendent, seems poised
in the heavens like a falcon prepared to dart upon
his prey. The carriage rolls down a rapid descent,
zigzag fashion, for drags are here unknown; lights
appear in the distance, and we enter the little town of
Veile.
Veile, a city of ancient lineage, which owes its origin,
say some, to Queen Thyre Danebod (“ the pride of
the Danes”), architectress of the Danevirke, or to her
son King Harald Blue-Tooth, at the very latest. It
had the honour of being burnt by King Abel, and in
the thirteenth century gave birth to as mischievous
an edict as was ever sent forth from a synod of arrogant
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