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Chap. VII.
DAGMAR AND BERENGARIA.
109
land old customs are handed down, and, like a machine,
the peasant does what his father has done before him,
without even asking the reason why. Hvitfeldt relates
how in his time the people still sang a song the refrain
of which ran—
“ Shame be to Bengjerd and honour to the king.”
And in much more modern days my old friend
Professor Thomsen told me, that, when a young man, while
lingering in the abbey church of Ringsted, he observed
a peasant, on entering the sacred building, to drop on
one knee and murmur a prayer at the tomb of Dagmar,
and then, rising with a “ God bless you, good Queen I”
he turned sharply round to the other side, and spat on
the sepulchral stone under which Berengaria slumbers.
He could give no explanation, he said; he followed the
custom of his forefathers.
If you are not already tired of tombs and coffins, I am ;
so we will pass over the remaining ones, and, joyful as
Rasselas to quit the Happy Valley, steam off by train to
Roeskilde.
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