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Chap. XXVI.
FRODSBORG.
401
the road, within the bowels of an ordinary barrow, in no
ways distinguished from its numerous brethren. Two
small urchins appeared, key and fat-lamp in hand, to
unlock and conduct us within the chamber; but we
ourselves were provided with wax candles. The door is
unclosed; on bended knees we creep through a narrow
passage, and suddenly find ourselves within a stone
chamber of considerable extent, lofty, seven paces long,
perfectly dry, all interstices between the large stones
being filled up with a solid masonry of rubble.
FRODSBORG.
And now we drive on to Frodsborg, where, within a
neighbouring barrow, are said to repose the remains of
King Frode the Good, who flourished about the period
of our Saviour’s birth—a time when, says the historian,
all the world was at peace and all the monarchs “ Good.”
The peasants still talk about King Frode ;* his
reputation for goodness having resisted the course of ages.
Not that they know much about him ; but he is a
household word amongst them. Christian IV., who was always
seeing visions, is related one day to have met, while
hunting near Fredensborg, a white doe of exceeding
beauty in the forest. He was prepared to fire, when
the animal marched right up to him and showed round
her neck a collar bearing a Runic inscription:—“ You
must not injure me, for King Frode the Good spared
my life and gave me peace.” The country people
place implicit faith in this story.
* “ Frode God og Kong Valdemar,
Del van el ægli Løvepar,”
VOL. I. 2d
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