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64
KANDERS.
Chap. XXXIII.
in the wars of the Counts, Niels Ebbesen slew in single
combat the rebel Count of Holstein; for Banders, like
other towns, has her history, and has played her part
in her country’s story. Her gloves were famous in
the eighteenth century; French ladies much affected
them and wore them at night: they were said to
render a fair white hand whiter still; and the proverb
ran—“As well known as Banders gloves.” Banders,
too, in early days boasted a manufactory of equal but
less enviable notoriety—her beer. In the year 1586
no less than six murders committed within her walls
were attributed by the judge to the effects of this
intoxicating liquor. The German proverb ran—“He
who comes from Banders not intoxicated or beaten is a
lucky man.”
But good, as we all know, sometimes comes out of evil.
In the days of Skipper Clemens, when, after the battle
of Svenstrup Heath, Bosenkrantz * and Banner, beaten by
the peasant forces, retired on Banders, they were there
besieged without success; for the “boers” found so
much beer in the cellars outside the walls that they gave
themselves over to intoxication, and Banders proved to
the rabble forces of the Jutland Jacquerie a second
Capua.
We visited the public gardens, the airy barracks for
the young cavalry recruits, and their spacious stables;
turned into the Town-hall to look at the modern picture
of the duel between Niels Ebbesen and the Holstein
count, and the charming portrait of Lena Brok, who
* One of his brothers, Otto, fell in the fight—you may see his tomb
at Krogsbæk church, raised by his spouse, a Gyldenstierne, and over
his coffin lies the sword he on that day so bravely wielded in the
mélée.
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