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Chap. XXVII.
VEIRHØI.
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ful, more soft and calm, than the village church of
Faareveile.
VEIRHØI.
We now drove to the Veirhøi, one of the highest
points in Zealand. Such a view met our eyes when
we arrived at the flag-staff! On one side the
Lamme-fiorde, the town of Roeskilde, the rocks on the coast
of Sweden, to the west; the waters of the Great Belt,
Kattegat, and Jutland, in the distance; before us lay
the island of Seirø, the property of a peasant; there
was made the best silver “finde” of this new year.
When in the Northern Museum of Copenhagen ask
for the Seirø finde—a rich wrought silver chain, to
which hangs suspended en breloque the hammer of
Thor; several bracelets, some hung with ring-money;
two brooches or fibulæ of quaint design, on one a
dragon in the act of devouring a snake; Cufic coins,
and one Anglo-Saxon, date 950, fixing the epoch of
the jewels.*
I stood chapeau bas, from pure respect; and then
my eyes fell on a blackened stone. “ That,” said Baron
* The peasants relate odd stories about the church bells of the island
of Seirø, which were carried off by the Swedes in the great war under
Christian V., and suspended in a steeple of the city of Gottcnborg.
Little good, however, came of it,—ring and peal hard as they would,
they could never make them sound as long as they wanted them to
ring for divine service ; but no sooner was the church door shut than
“ Ding dong bell ” they set off, never stopping the livelong day ; so, to
be rid of their bargain, they sent them off back again, and gladly paid
the expenses. The clergyman of Gottenborg wrote thus:—“ And I
hope and trust, just as the bells have sounded in the foresaid town,
they may henceforth during many years in their own home be rung
peacefully for the performance of the service of God : ” which letter,
says the Danish Aller, was long preserved “ in originalis,” by F.
Rost-gaard and his heirs, in the last century the owners of Seirø.
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