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72
MARIAGER.
Chap. XXXIV.
under which you approach her cemetery. The village
runs down to the waterside, and possesses there a wee
harbour all of its own, where two or three Norwegian
vessels unload their planks upon the jetty. Not far
removed is the small bathing establishment, and over
the little custom-house floats the Danish flag.
Very quiet and composed is the village of Mariager
on this Sabbath morn : a few peasants in their Sunday’s
best, patterns of rustic neatness, are now on their way
to church. A stuhhyagen drives by laden with six
Jutlanders, sober old-fashioned folks; beside the driver
sits a musician, with distended cheeks, playing most
vigorously on the flageolet. A wedding or something
must be going on: we go and see, and meet a return
christening, a small baby, well wrapped and nigh
suffocated in a coloured blanket. As we enter the
churchyard we meet the stiff-ruffed parson, who calls his
“deacon” to accompany us. Deacon, an Old
Mortality, knows all the tombstones by heart, and is anxious
to display his knowledge. Well-worn knight and
ecclesiastic, whose inscriptions will soon be trodden away, and
become things of the past, like the families in whose
houses they were erected—most of them slain at the
battle of Aalborghuus *—lie here interred.
Very English do they sound to our astonished ears:
the Hogs, Broks, Lockes, Lawson, Galt, and Benzon;
the list closing with good Bishop Crump (crooked),
last Roman Catholic prelate of Aalborg, who, the
Reformation once declared, ousted from his diocese
(stift), retired to Manager or its whereabouts, and lies
buried among his relatives, not far removed from
* 1534.
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