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Chap. V.
VALLEY OF THE GREIS.
73
is no doubt the barrow had been already rifled, and
several of the beams cut through. The discovery too of
a short wax candle placed on one of the beams confirms
the supposition. Some particles of wool were also found,
which may once have formed part of the clothes. These
were all deposited in the museum at Copenhagen.
The presence of a horse’s bit gives rise to a
dispute whether the barrow be that of Thyre or her
husband Gorm, nor can the controversy be decided
until the adjoining høi be examined, and
antiquaries await with impatience the day when his present
Majesty King Frederic VII., who takes a most
praiseworthy interest in the antiquities of his kingdom, may
find time and leisure to superintend the opening of the
barrow in person.
Curious to relate, a Runic stone, “faisant suite,” as
the French say, to those of Jellinge, has been lately
discovered near Flensborg, with an inscription which
announces the marriage of the daughter of Thyre, a
young lady who might have been imagined to have
died an old maid except for this discovery, if, indeed,
anybody had previously been aware of her existence.
VALLEY OF THE GREIS (GREISDAL).
We varied our return to Veile by driving through
the romantic Valley of the Greis—a Danish
Switzerland, our landlord termed it. Setting aside all alpine
pretensions, it was very pretty and varied, the ground
undulating, now verdant, now bare, now crowned
with a dense wood of beech and pine. Here and
there were small patches of cultivation, picturesque
cottages striped black and white and gushing streamlet
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