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SØBORG.
Chap. XXIII.
SØBORG
After bidding adieu to our civil host we drove on to
Søborg, whose village stands at some three miles
distant from Nakkehoved. No ruins of the castle were
visible, so we got out at the church-gate, and
endeavoured to persuade a small white-pated child to
conduct us to where the “ gammel slot ” once stood. He
hesitated, consulted with another urchin, and hand in
hand, as if for protection, they preceded us to the
desired spot. I found nothing but the foundations and
court-pavements, but, expecting nothing, was not
disappointed. The king some nine years since, 1850, made
considerable excavations here; and when I was at
Frederiksborg, his Majesty did me the honour to show me a
collection of old sword-blades, javelins, keys, &c., he had
himself discovered during the progress of his
excavations. Søborg Slot, as well as Søborg Lake, possesses
no intrinsic interest in its present state beyond the
romance attached to a site so famous in Denmark’s
story. The castle and its surrounding forests are no
more, and the lake may soon be erased from the map
of the country, the greater part being already
reclaimed and brought under cultivation — somewhat
sedgy it must be owned, and emitting towards
nightfall miasmas, telling of fever, and highly prejudicial
to the health of the surrounding villages; but before
many years elapse corn will grow and wave where the
fishes now swim and the moor-frog croaks. Last night
it appeared a very Vale of Tempe, so floweryfied,
brilliant with blossoms of the globe ranunculus,* called
Trollius Europæus.
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