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Chap. XXXII.
LADY HILDE TROLLE.
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But Katsholm was not always inhabited by honest
people, for in the last century Lady Hilde Trolle,
Baroness of Høgholm, dwelt there—a bad harsh
woman, who had sold her body to the evil one for
certain sublunary advantages. When the appointed time
arrived she was in bed with her daughter; a terrible
noise was heard on the staircase, and she well knew that
her last hour was come. She bade her daughter rise
and see who was there, in hopes the demon might make
a mistake and carry her off instead, but the girl
resolutely refused to do as she was bidden. Then the door
flew open, and the lady was dragged out on the staircase.
Terrible shrieks were heard, and all died away. The
next morning her head was found on the stairs torn
from her body, for the agreement had been only made
for her body, and the demon kept to the letter of his
bond; so it was buried in the old coffin of a former
possessor of the castle, whom the Lady Hilde had turned
out of his last abode to make use of his bones for her
necromancies.
And now we go on to Thorsager to visit its far-famed
round church—the most perfect of the eight still
existing in Denmark.* It stands well on an elevation,
a picturesque object as you approach, towering like a
castle above the village. Its construction is assigned to
Bishop Peter, our old friend of Aarhuus and Silkeborg,
though, had he trusted to chance and his silken cap in
this case, and the wind as high as it is to-day, there is
no knowing where the peasants might have had to run
for their devotions. Some say that there existed in early
* Two in Zealand—Storehedinge and Biemede; one in Funen—
Horae, at Faaborg ; one in Jutland—Thorsager ; and four in Bornholm
—Østerlars, Nykers, Ols, and Ny. Storehedinge is octagonal.
VOL. II. E
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