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Chap. XXXV.
ST. BUDOLPH’S CHURCH.
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Aalborg is not a town of sights, guide-book-speaking—
no bounden duties; a most blessed circumstance: still
there is quite enough to interest and while away a day,
pottering about without any fixed plan or stereotyped
project. The pavement is not famous, but there are
symptoms of progress; three long streets have been
lately repaved; gas was introduced here as soon, if not
before, Copenhagen; and a liberal supply of water is
forced by hydraulic pumps to the upper stories of every
house in the place, from Bleg Kilde. There is no
doubt that this valley originally formed part of the
fiorde; the city must have then been almost an island, the
truth of which theory is carried out by the oyster-beds
found embedded in the rocks near Bleg Kilde—beds of
unopened oysters, growing, as oysters do in nature,
double, the round shell undermost—not separate, like
the kitchen heaps of the Northern Museum, of which
plenty have been discovered on the heights above the
Liimfiorde.
Leaving the hotel, we stroll down the street leading
to St. Budolph’s church: the doors are open; odd
women occupied in cleaning it out, each armed with a
goose’s wing—ancient Scandinavian duster, used, I have
no doubt, in the time of King Gorm. St. Budolph’s is
like all churches in these parts—carving, paint, and
gold.
We must visit that adjoining house * in the corner
of the ancient Kloster court, gabled and ancient. Here,
in the year 1513, Feb. 20th, expired King Hans (John),
father of Christian II., Knight of the most honourable
* One of the few which in this part of the town escaped the raging
conflagration of 1660 or thereabouts, since which date no fire has
attacked Aalborg ; hence her antiquated appearance.
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