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Chap. XXL
ROSTGAARD.
311
blue taarn, of that peculiar blue unproduceable by
Prussian, cobalt, or ultramarine, by Irish eyes, or the reflex on
a raven’s wing: a blue of its own; I must term it “ mose
blue,”—a tint produced by the reflection of the sun over
the waters of a dark morass. The labourers are. engaged
cutting deep into the swamp ; they carry off the black
mud in their carts and spread it in thin layers to dry,
to be used as fuel for winter consumption. These
morasses become dry as touchwood in summer season.
A few days since, some boys engaged in searching for
plovers’ eggs, desirous to frighten the parent birds from
their nests, set fire to the barren turf: the conflagration
extended wide, and caused great anxiety before it was
effectually extinguished.
We stand by a circle of stones, the centre of which,
of large dimensions, is inscribed with the cipher H. Pi.
and the date 1659, denoting the scene of some
unforgotten story.
You may call to mind, perchance, how, in my
mention of St. Olaf’s church, I somewhat disrespectfully
pooh-poohed the epitaphium of some native hero who
once saved Denmark. It was that of Rostgaard. He
never saved Denmark, yet the story of his fair wife (the
Danish Penelope) must not be passed over.
When in the year 1659 Kronborg was in possession
of the Swedes, Hans Rostgaard, together with Parson
Gerner, student Tikjøb, Steenwinkel the Danish
engineer, and the English Colonel Hutchinson—who had
been bribed by the Danes for the sum of 1000 ducats
to desert from the Swedes—formed a plan to retake
the castle. Student Tikjøb endeavoured to gain
Copenhagen in a boat, charged with letters and despatches
relating to the proposed attack. He was, however, boarded
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