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LINAA.
Chap. XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXI.
The fish and the "ring — Fortunes of the house of Stubbe — The
traitor page — Marsk Stig, the outlaw — Chateau of Friisenborg —
Artificial egg-hatching.
LINAA.
June 21s£.—The horses are ordered at six o’clock—it
is nearly seven before they arrive—postilion overslept
himself. We retrace our steps as far as the village
of Linaa, concerning which I before promised you a
story.
Many centuries ago there lived, in the
neighbourhood of the kro where we now stand, three sisters,
Linaa, Dall, and Bjara by name, as remarkable for their
piety as for their riches. Their father, a fierce viking,
on his departure upon some marauding expedition,
confided to their care his treasure, and then disappeared
from the face of the earth—killed in battle, slain, or
drowned; so his daughters wisely dug up his gold,
instead of leaving it to grace in modern days the cabinets
of the Musée Scandiuave, and divided it among them;
each determined to apply a part of her share to a good
purpose very much in vogue at that period—the
building of a church. Three sacred edifices soon rose proudly
on the banks of the adjoining lake, on the spots where
the villages of Linaa, Ballerup, and Bjarup now stand.
For matins, mid-day, and vesper song, these pious damsels
passed the water in a boat—quite edifying it would
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