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62
RANDERS.
Chap. XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Brausgaard and the Bruces — Banders’ ’commerce, her gloves and
beer — Duel of the Counts — Manors of the Scheel family — A
midnight wandering in Jutland.
RANDERS.
We then made for Randers, passing by the manor of
Bruusgaard, pronounced Bruce, still a common name
in Jutland. With all due respect to the memory of
Scotland’s mighty Bruce, Bruce in the Danish tongue
signifies nothing more nor less than “ muddle-headed.”
An horn’ and a half’s drive brings us to the bridge
of Randers, which crosses the clear water of the
Guden Aa.
Saturday, 26th.—A most successful little town is
Randers, one of the pleasantest in Jutland, not situated
on the fiorde, as Murray declares, but at seven miles’
distance. Guden Aa still teems with salmon and
trout; excellent fish, preserved against nets, but open
to flies at large. They don’t rise. It might be
picturesque, too, little Randers, were it not too genteel
and seized with the fear of the “bumpkin fever.”
Such old timber houses, chessboard and striped! such
carvings! Prout, how he would have loved them! but
striped houses are here deemed vulgar, village-like ; so
they paint them stone colour, and hope that travellers
may mistake them for plaster, if not stucco. On Guden
Aa’s banks bristles a little merchant fleet of shipping—
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