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Chap. XXXV.
BØRGLUM KLOSTER.
95
tion woe betide him—over he rolls in the mud and
mire, and sinks, perhaps, never to rise again.
In the churchyard we again saw many of those old
timber tombs—trunk of a tree rudely severed—chiefly
to be met with in ancient churchyards situated on an
eminence.
We are out of the land of cemeteries now; plain
green mounds, like an English village. The church is
in full whitewash, as they all appear to be at this season.
At the threshold lay one of those black liigsteen, as they
here call them; engraved with a huge sword, like those
of Canute’s time—that of some warrior dead, perhaps
not in the odour of sanctity, but allowed, as a privilege
of birth, to sleep at the church entrance in peace.
The workman employed in the repairs pointed out
to us Børglum Kloster, and related the story of its
founder, the Holy Knud: he had it all at his fingers’
ends. The Danes, as a nation, are singularly
well-informed on the history of their own country. We
then passed through the village of Tise, cowering at the
hill’s-foot—houses built very low, ducking from the
wind, very snug, and windows small.
BØRGLUM KLOSTER.
The moor is all alive with tethered sheep, tethered
geese, and tethered everything except the plovers, of
which we never yet saw, certainly never yet ate, so
many as to-day. Before arriving at Børglum Kloster
we first distinguished in the distance what appeared to
be rugged walls, standing alone, ruins of some gigantic
castle; on nearer approach we find them to be bakkes,
or klints as they here call them, of driven sand, not
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