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Chap. XXXV.
HJØRRING.
97
Zeemann in the Gallery of Copenhagen. No meat to be
had in this retired place, but excellent fried fish; and
a dish of sour cream, as they call it, a national plat,
served up with bread-crumbs and powdered sugar, very
palatable. N.B. Denmark is the only country I know
of where bread-crumbs are sold ready grated by the
ounce or pound, a very dirty practice.
A change has come over the Danish flora since we
came northwards. In Zealand all was white; here all
is yellow—yellow water-lilies, yellow iris, yellow marsh
cineraria, field chrysanthemum, galium, as well as
potentillas and marsh buttercup.*
HJØRRING.
We leave to the right the church of Vennebierg—the
first object discerned by British seamen on their arrival
from England off the Jutland coast: and approach the
ancient ecclesiastical town of Hjørring, restored to the
arms of Mother Church now, away from all Pagan
“ ups,” in the parish of their sanctities “ Hans and
Olaf.” Hjørring was once the stift (diocese) of a popish
bishop, whose country residence of Biskopstorp, hard
by, makes one half fancy oneself in the North Riding,
far removed from windy Jutland. The little town—
where, in good King Frode’s days, hung one of the
three golden rings, and with its church embowered
in wood, and its cemetery in form of a cross—like all
old cathedral towns, piques itself on its ancient grandeur,
as well as on its present respectability ; no commerce
here, scarcely any shops, but a small population living
on their “ rentesto us, arrived from the desert sands
* Froe peber—seed-pepper—Ranunculus ficaria.
VOL. II. II
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