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Chap. XXI.
THE HELL-HORSE.
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fishing-house, tradition relates that the minister
Guld-berg, in concert with Juliana, concerted the ruin of
Caroline Matilda and the overthrow of Struensee: they
were there safe from all listeners and spies who might
have betrayed the conspiracy.
We dined at the little inn in the open air “ unter den
Lindena good little dinner, served on old china—
three marcs, coffee included!
SØLYST AND ESROM.
At seven o’clock we started on our journey home, taking
Esrom and Sølyst on the way, through the woods by the
bank of the lake. The foliage is somewhat relieved this
evening by an admixture of larch and birch. Our
road ran by a picturesque village, proud of its healing
spring; but as the water runs through the
churchyard, I had no fancy to test its virtues, and would
prefer most ailments to cure by such a remedy. In
olden times there was a strange custom in Zealand, and
may be elsewhere, of interring a living horse in every
churchyard before any human being could be buried
there. This horse reappears, and is known under the
name of the “ Hell-horse.” It has but three legs:
but ill-luck to the man who sees it, for it foretells his
own death. Hence it is said of one who has recovered
from a dangerous illness, “He has given a bushel of
oats to the Hell-horse.” Further on stands the rustic
fishing-house of his Majesty, with a rude stone kitchen
range outside, sufficient to fry your perch—or boil them,
if you like it better. Sølyst is a small house on the
lake’s side, where strangers breakfast or drink their
coffee on the terraces.
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