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264:
M ARIENLYST.
Chap. XVII.
closed and developed—still soft—might produce this
malformation of the forehead. Royalties, in those days
of etiquette, too, suffered more than humbler mortals.
Be this the reason or not, when pigtails went out
foreheads came in again, as we may see by their descendants
the monarchs of the present century.
We mount au second. A door leads you direct into
the woods, now carpeted with the flowers of the guul
fugls melk (yellow bird’s milk *), and terraces by
which the palace is dominated: charming retreats in
summer season, where you may enjoy those two luxuries
so seldom found combined—shade, and the fresh, bracing
sea-air. You turn to the right, and before passing
through the open gate which leads into the forest find
yourself in front of a raised mound, once surmounted by
a cross (partly fallen), the so-called “ Hamlet’s Tomb
no more his place of sepulture than that of Jupiter.
Indeed, its origin dates from within the last thirty
years. Hans Andersen assured me that, when he was
a scholar at Elsinore, it existed not. In the good old
times, when the Sound duties still were, and myriads
of ships of all nations stopped at Elsinore to pay their
dues and be plundered by the inhabitants, each fresh
English sailor, on his first arrival, demanded to be
conducted to the tomb of Hamlet. Now, on the outside of
the town, by the Strand Vei, in the garden of a
resident merchant, stood and still stands a høi or barrow,
one of the twenty thousand which are scattered so
plentifully over the Danish dominions. This barrow,
to the great annoyance of its possessor, was settled
upon as a fit resting-place for Shakespeare’s hero.
* Ornithogalum luteum.
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