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Chap. VII.
RINGSTED.
103
and gained the church-door just in time, banging it
behind him, for Absalon struck it such a violent blow
with his crozier, the very walls trembled. When the
coffin of Absalon was opened one hundred and twenty
years afterwards the crozier was found snapped in twain.
We now passed through the city-gate, or what is
dignified by the name of such — an archway through
a private house — into the highway, on our road
to Fienneslevlille, the seat of Sir Asker Ryg and
the twin church-towers, at the distance, we were told,
of an English mile; but it turned out to be a Danish
one, and we lost our way in the woods, wandered
about for two hours, got swamped in a morass, and
ended by coming out of the forest some twenty yards
distant from where we had entered it; so returned, in
a state of intense disgust, to the little cabaret, in time
to catch the train for Ringsted, which we reached in
half an hour.
RINGSTED.
We crossed a green field before arriving at the deserted
city of Ringsted, founded, so says tradition, by a
certain King Ring,* in the darker period of Scandinavian
history. A grass-grown miserable place it is, with a
barrack-like hotel; but we have several hours to wait,
so must make the best of it. To the left stands the
convent church—the Westminster of the Valdemerian
* King Ring, when wounded severely in battle, determined to die ;
so he ordered the dead bodies of his warriors to be placed in a ship,
together with that of his queen, Alpol, and seated himself at the stern.
The ship was loaded with pitch and sulphur and set on fire, and so
he sailed out to sea. Then he plunged his sword into his body, and
perished. A hpi was raised in his honour.
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