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70
JELLINGE.
Chap. V.
province as her dowry. Be she of English or Holstein
origin, her memory is handed down with affection by
all historians, »early and late.
On our arrival at the village of Jellinge we descended
at the gate of the churchyard, which lies between the
two gigantic tumuli, or høis as they are called in
Denmark, erected to the memory of the king and queen. We
mounted them each separately, and from these heights
obtained a view over the heath of Jellinge, ground
sacred to the lover of old Scandinavian story, wild and
mysterious, well studded with small barrows such as we
meet on the downs of Dorsetshire and Wilts.
It was on this heath of Jellinge hung, in the days of
King Frode the Good, one of the three rings of gold
suspended to a gibbet, a
ring no man dared to steal,
such according to tradition
was the excellence of the
police in his days. But
the glory of Jellinge is her
sepulchral stones, two in
number, carved over with
Runic inscriptions. The
larger, eleven feet high, a
huge block of granite,
triangular and misshapen, was
erected by King Harald
Blue-Tooth to the memory
of his father and mother
conjointly, and bears on each side the same inscription.
You ’must gaze at this stone for some minutes,
constantly changing your position, until the eye becomes
accustomed, and will be able to unravel the wild serpent
Sepulchral Stone of King Gorm’the Öld.
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