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Chap. XXIII. THE CHURCH. 347
in Denmark Engblomme, or meadow bloom, shaking
their golden heads to the evening breeze, and other
marshy treasures — a California to the botanist. If
the prosaic Danes continue to destroy their forests and
drain their lakes for filthy lucre’s sake, their country
will lose half its charms; in these consists their
strength. I have often thought, were mankind less
farinaceously inclined, how much more beautiful a world
we should live in.
We entered the village-church,—the door was open;
and allow me to recommend it especially to the notice
of the ecclesiologist—not for its external gabled
quaintness, but for its internal arrangement. It consists of
two aisles, without nave; three massive columns, running
down the centre of the building, support the
doublevaulted roof; the whole terminated by a small, short,
obscure apse or chancel. This arrangement is new to
me at any rate.
So now, as I have a long story to tell you about
Søborg, let us at any rate remove from the misty
neighbourhood of the morass, Jack o’ Lantern’s kingdom. We
have a three hours’ drive before us through Esrom and
the forest, and, if you are not afraid of sheet lightning,
I shall have plenty of time to finish my story before
we are safely housed at Marienlyst.
Of the origin of Søborg I can tell you but little. It
was standing strong, fair to gaze upon, in the year
1270, at which period of our northern history Erik
Glipping, or the Winker, in a peck of troubles, occupied
the throne of Denmark; he sometimes honoured this
ancient castle with his presence. Søborg can never
have been accounted among the plaisaunces of her
native sovereigns rather as a state prison, built on an
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