Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - XXVIII - Sengeløse - Isles—Horsens
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
12
SENGELØSE.
Chap. XXVIII.
SENGELØSE.
We steam on—on, but not fast—stop at station after
station, till we arrive at Høie Thorstrup, passengers for
Sengeløse; so I inspect the map; and here, not far
removed, lies Snubbe’s Cross, concerning which there
hangs a story:—
It was in the thirteenth century that the Lady Snubbe,
walking in the fields near Sengeløse, gave birth to a son
and heir. Iler husband, Sir Eskil Snubbe, a noble knight,
caused a cross to be erected on the spot to commemorate
the event, charging two of his farms alternately with the
repairs necessary for its preservation. In the year 1817
a quarrel arose between the proprietors of the land,
whose duty it was to do the needful, each declaring it to
be the turn of his neighbour; so, as they could not settle
the matter amicably, they pulled the cross down, and
the name alone remains to prove the antiquity of the
house of Snubbe with an e.
Off again, and in three quarters of an hour we are
landed at Copenhagen.
ISLES—HORSENS.
A three hours’ journey brought us to Korsør, where,
on the quay side, smoked three steamers—one bound
for Aarhuus, a second for the islands, and a third for
Horsens. On the latter we embark with a head-wind
and promise of two hours’ extra passage. Towards five
o’clock we pass the small island of Endelave, where
myriads of flappers are trying their new-fledged wings on
the water. Now as we enter the fiorde a small islet of
emerald green appears faint in the horizon, flat, almost
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
