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Chap. XXIII.
VALDEMAR’S ROAD.
351
though it might be, became at last insupportable, and
to rid himself of such an uninterrupted attendance he
cast the amulet into the waters of a lake near
Vordin-borg. From this moment Vordinborg became dear to
Valdemar, and he built a new castle there on the site
of the old. His affections were now divided between
Vordinborg and Gurre, which occasioned frequent
journeys betwixt these places. The remains of a long
paved road constructed by him—an atrocious pave it
is too—running through the whole length of Zealand,
from Vordinborg to Gurre—still exist in the
neighbourhood of the latter castle, as well as in other places, and
are called by the peasants “ Valdemar’s Road.”
The spot where the courtier cast away the amulet,
among the morasses in the neighbourhood of
Vordinborg, Valdemar caused to be filled up, and here he
built his “Lille Gurre.” His affection for the places
where he had lived with his beloved Tove continued
until the day of his death, some twenty-three years
later.
And now we must return to jealous Queen Hedvig,
like our own Eleanor of Aquitaine, held in durance
vile for her supposed iniquities. She had borne to
her lord and king since the time of her marriage five
children, of whom two only survived—one, Christopher,
Duke of Lolland, a miserable, half-grown stripling, to die
some ten years later (we are now in 1352) a maniac.*
In 1350 a second heir, a Valdemar, appears—to the
* See p. 116. An earlier Margaret reached her fifth year and died.
Ingeborg came to life’s estate; married Duke Henry of
Mecklenburg ; became mother of unhappy Albert of Sweden, who dared to
oppose himself against the will of the lioness of Calmar. Then came
Catherine, who died an infant.
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