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AALBORG.
Chap. XXXV.
was the revenge of the boer race: murder, rapine in
its worst forms. Clemens, at the head of many
thousands, defeated Banner and Rosenkrantz at the battle
of Svenstrup Heath, and installed himself in Aalborg.
Scarce a manor in Jutland remained undevastated, most
burnt to the ground. Clemens was dislodged later by
Rantzau, and defeated in the battle of Aalborghuus,
taken prisoner in a moor four English miles from the
city, in the parish of Storvorde, conveyed to Kolding,
and there broken on the wheel and beheaded.
At this very time a farmer in the parish of Storvorde
holds his lands free of all taxes, a perpetual grant from
the Danish sovereign, in consequence of Clemens having
been captured alive within his house.*
We have nothing more to visit but the Frue Kirke,
a building of the early part of the twelfth century,
whose round-arch doorway is a most remarkable
specimen of the architecture of the period. The carvings
are quaint and primitive, scarcely more advanced as
works of art than those on the sculptured stones of
King Gorm at Jellinge; the dragon appears, as usual
in all ornaments of this date. The deacon proposed
we should visit the tombs, or rather the coffins, of the
“Normen,” as he called them, who, by records still
existing, are proved to have been here interred.
* Several letters still exist, in the collection I have before alluded
to, between King Christian and Skipper Clemens; in one of which the
monarch thanks him and his companions for their faithful services, and
desires them to go to Scotland to procure aid. Then again, 31 Dec.
1525, Clemens in a letter begs of the king to send them more
assistance.—Signed, “ Fynd, Kempe, and Skipper Clemens, your poor, true,
and humble servants, as well as Skipper Jackinyn.” Faithful servants
they were to their harassed lord ; they did however an immense deal of
mischief, as we all know, in Jutland.
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