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LYKKEN.
Chap. XXXV.
dunes, but upright walls, shutting out the sea from the
inland country. Børglum Kloster resembles all
suppressed convents. It may have been a lively place in
the days of Knud,* its founder, not then Holy, but
somewhat oppressive, severe. Here he intrenched
himself against the “øpror” of the Vendel peasants, with
whom he was everlastingly at loggerheads — Vendel
men, who later poked him to death through the window
of St. Alban’s church at Odense. Børglum was once a
bishopric. Her last prelate was Bishop Crump; these
Crumps appear to have had no luck, and always come
in at the death of Romanism in Jutland. He lies in
the rummelig (roomy) abbey church, as it is called, all
alone. Børglum is now a private residence and farm,
little changed — a courtyard planted with limes, the
ancient font a trough. If you care to count
windmills and churches from these heights, you may so till
your fingers ache; but we go on to Lykken, to bathe
once more in the briny ocean, and get some dinner.
LYKKEN.
A small fishing village among the sand; splendid
bathing in a mischievous sea, but to-day as calm as a
polished mirror. We order dinner; the ladies don
their bathing costume, and, enveloped in their cloaks,
walk down to the sea-shore. A delicious bath we had;
sea like crystal—a few fishing vessels and nets and the
klint behind, like one of those pretty sea-pieces by
* Or at the fetes of May, when the image of the Holy Virgin was
decked with the gold and jewelled crown, a present from the great
Queen Margaret, borne on her brow for near two hundred years, till
Christian III., hard up to pay his soldiers, melted it down.-
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