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42
LINAA.
Chap. XXXI.
where she was listening; “ we shall see when the time
comes.” The time did come, and a bad time too—dead
twins—nearly costing the young mother’s life; and
months and years rolled on—more dead children, and
more still, and Stubbe borne down with age and sorrow.
Then says the old stork, “Vengeance is not ours; we
must pardon his offences for his young wife’s sake.”
Next time a living baby comes, fresh and blue-eyed;
and then come twins, and then a fourth, and twins
again. Stubbe rubs his hands: six children living;
one more and he is saved; and so he would have
been had he reckoned with the storks alone; but grim
Death steps in—a fit of apoplexy after the christening
dinner of the last-born child: he is carried to the
church vaults, father of six children. The fortunes of
the Stubbes now ended: like others of ancient
lineage, they passed away—one lake “ Stubbe Sø ” * marked
on the map alone recalls their memory.
Åt Skovby pause one moment. Turn to the right
and gaze towards Storring; there you will discern
two mounds of earth, not far removed one from the
other — Dronninghøi and Steilehøi they are called.
Here, on the first-named, stood Queen Agnes of
Brandenburg, widowed cpieen of Erik Glipping, who was
slain by the Grand Marshal Stig t and other confederate
* Stubbe Sø is in tbe Mois district.
t Marsk (Marshal) Stig Andersen Hvide was of the same family as
Absalon and Duke Porse; like the latter, he made a grand
marriage. Concerning the intimacy of King Erik and this lady there was
great scandal, and it was to revenge the insult offered to his honour that
the marshal plotted, and later executed, the murder of his sovereign.
Marsk Stig was renowned all over the North for his splendour. In an
old Swedish lay it rims, “ Stig, he proceeds to the marble halls : there
he invites the king to his home so joyfully ; he invites the king and
all his men, the queen with her damsels fair. When they came to
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