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Chap. XXIX.
VÆHR.
17
of armed knight and high-born lady, visit it, and you
will be gratified: Gyldernstierne and Rosenkrantz—old
Jutland names; the latter perhaps the most distinguished
of Denmark.
In the afternoon we drove over to Steensballegaard,
the seat of Baron Juel, on the opposite side of the fiorde
to Boiler, remarkable for the beauty of its site. The
entrance through the gaard, or farmyard—the moated
grange itself, surrounded on one side by a square of
farm-buildings—shocks an English eye; but when
gentlemen farm on the scale of Jutlanders—feed and lodge
some hundred retainers—it is necessary to keep these
matters near at hand. An avenue of limes, some half
a mile in length, led us to a hill-top, from whence we
mounted to an adjoining høi, commanding the country
round and the fiorde below. Hiarnø and Alrø, Vaarsø
and her Calf—glorious woods and pasture-lands—a real
Danish landscape. The country is refreshed after a long
drought by frequent showers. The Helix pomatia—
eatable snail—here abounds : excellent for consumptive
patients. You find them in England in the “ Pilgrim’s
walks ”—Sir Kenelm Digby too introduced them in the
neighbourhood of Croydon; his wife, the Lady Venetia,
affected them much for the benefit of her complexion;
so tradition says: and here at Boiler, as well as at
Lethraborg, the only two places where they exist in
Denmark, they were introduced by a Frenchman.
VÆHB.
We returned home by Væhr, a small village, the last
resting-place of Griffenfeld, who, after twenty-seven
years’ imprisonment in the fortress of Munkholm, near
Tronyem, died at the house of his only daughter,
VOL. II. c
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