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SØBORG.
Chap. XXIII.
island, surrounded by water and almost impenetrable
forests. It was the strongest “chateau fort” in the
island of Zealand, a most convenient lock-up house for
successively turbulent Counts of Holstein (Adolf of the
Milk-Can, in 1201, among the number) and
contumacious archbishops, like Jens Grand, a most mischievous
prelate, who tasted a little wholesome incarceration
within its towers towards the latter end of the 13th
century, 1294-5. It was reckoned by far the most
ancient castle of Zealand, and over its gateway—an
entrance about as palatable to those who passed within
as that of the far-famed Traitor’s Gate in our own
White Tower of London—was seen inscribed—
vLlöfjflöt tPOHT PPW Aff rrrnrTw nF rra’orrST It kreoPr ‘Frv
Vixit Aristoteles, et Alexander dominatur,
Dum per gentiles castrum Søborg fabricatur.
A sad fib, the first hexameter; but mark well in the
second the term “ gentiles.” Denmark, like England,
Brittany, and Hungary, had her untitled nobility—her
“gentiles homines ”—by birth, not raised to the honour
by patent, like the noblesse of France and Germany.
“ Gentilis homo ” is the expression still used in Brittany
by law, when speaking of the members of her most
illustrious families.
When I related to you the story of Gurre, I
mentioned how that castle had been the favourite
residence of King Valdemar Atterdag, and how his
name stood connected with a certain Tove—not the
Tovelil of the ballad, as some supposed her. Since
then, after a careful examination of various most
confused authorities, obscure enough to drive a man
demented, I see my way clear through the romance,
and here give it, for it is as much connected with
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