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Chap. XXXIV.
SEA OF BARROWS.
79
humbler classes! *)—the peasants discovered the body
of a female pegged down in the bog, a spurious Queen
Gunhild.
As we drove along I fell into a reverie, and tried to
picture to myself the map of Jutland and the Danish
isles, such as it might have been before the birth of
Christ, when these long valleys, now half under
cultivation, half mose, were still extensive lakes, sloppings
of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass
away from the evaporation of the sun’s rays and the
labour of mankind.
That the waters are retiring in these parts there can
be no doubt; the very names as well as the stranded
appearance of the sites on which the villages are built
attest the fact—Trandersholm (island), Engholm, and
twenty others.
The worthy mayor of Aalborg told me himself that,
where he used to fish some eighteen years since in the
little lake of Gravlev, the land has been long since
under cultivation, and from no draining process* The
islands, too, of the Liimfiorde are gradually becoming
connected with the land—Oxholm, and many others:
while at the farm of Revs the proprietor continued,
until fifty years ago, to hold the privilege of ferrying
over travellers in his boat to Gudenholm, where
carriages have passed over dry land for many centimes.
It is more easy to realise this transition in a summer
twilight, when there is a sombre mysterious gloom as
far as the straining eye can gaze over this sea of
hillocks.
After a weary three hours’ drive we arrive at Lin-
* One thousand large turves here sell for 2s. Cd. English—they fiud
no bog-oak though, as in Ireland.
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