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Chap. VII.
SORØ.
95
SORØ*
By seven o’clock we are en route for Sorø, no longer,
alas ! our own masters, but slaves to time and steam:
we alight to breakfast at a nasty little cabaret, not
far removed from the station; for the clean roadside
inns of Jutland are here no more to be found,—steam
has already done its worst in Zealand as elsewhere.
Cast Ollendorf into the waters of the Great Belt, he
will serve you but little now : not one word of German
do the natives here comprehend; our Danish grammar
had been long since forwarded to Copenhagen; but
coffee is coffee all the world over, or something not far
removed from it, so we ended by getting our breakfast,
and then marched off to visit the Academy, a foundation
of Frederic IL’s time, on the lands of a monastery of
the twelfth century.
Before giving a description of Sorø, her academy
and church, I may as well first relate the legend of
the foundation of this monastery as given in the ballad
of ‘ The two Church Towers.’
Sir Asker Ryg, son of Skialm Hvide, was a
knight of large possessions, and dwelt near the
village of Fienneslevlille. One day, when about to
start for the wars, he first went into “ the little church
to pray,” and greatly scandalised was he to find the
doorway so low he was compelled to bow his head
on entering therein: the roof, too, was of black straw,
and the damp and green mould hung to the
crumbling walls. Greatly shocked was Sir Asker Ryg;
* The lake of Sorø is celebrated for a fish, said to have been brought
over by the monks from Germany, which is nowhere else to be met with
in Denmark.
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