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10
SIGERSTED.
Chap. XXVIII.
country-house built in the olden style — a pleasant
walk through an avenue of shady trees, at ten minutes’
distance from the Slot gate of the city. Slagelse boasts
of an ancient church, in no ways remarkable from the
rest of the ecclesiastical buildings of the country. On
by the rail: we flit by Sorø, take up a cargo of small
boys, and then again a stoppage.
SIGERSTED.
Ten minutes at Ringsted, enough at anv time, and
quite sufficient to point out to the right the village of
Sigersted, once famous in olden story: for here dwelt
King Sigurd, father of the fair Signe. Tall and straight
as a lilievand * was the damsel, and beloved of Prince
Hagbard, the Danish king’s son; but Sigurd forbad the
marriage. Lovers’ wits are proverbial—secret nuptials
take place ; and Hagbard visits his bride, as Romeo did
his Juliet, in secret. A spy denounces the lovers to the
king, who orders his warriors to seize the prince; but
they refuse, for Hagbard is born of a giant race. Then
speaks out the spy: “ Cut off first the hair of the
princess and bind him in her tresses; his love for
her is too great for him to burst such chains asunder.”
Hagbard is bound in her silken chains: the
Princess Signe cries to him to break loose; but he refuses.
“ Never can I,” he declares, “ injure one hair of your
head.” The king orders him to be hanged; the
lovers agree they will never survive each other, and
Signe vows to set fire to her bower when Hagbard
hangs in his chains. When he approached the gibbet,
mistrusting the constancy of woman’s love, be desired
Stalk of a lily.
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