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Chap. XXXVII.
“ LILLE VILD MOSE.”
125
Aalborg Amt as your centre, you will find it surrounded
by a continuation of villages bearing the name of holm
or island; then again towards the east lies the “ Lille
Vild Mose,” a huge bog extending over miles, the
effects of one of those awful inundations of the sea so
common in the earlier centuries. Having done its
worst, the sea has thrown up dunes so high as to be
called “ Muld bjergene.” Well, in the centre of this bog
lie four small lakes, or Sø, now brought into
cultivation. The turf, as we all know, grows upwards, and
is now fifteen feet above the level of the lake’s banks.
Every year, as the plough passes over these lands,
urns containing bones are turned up, composed of the
same black Jutland pottery now sold at the canal
by the Amagertorv in Copenhagen, ornamented with
the zigzag decoration, such as you find on all the earlier
round-arch doorways of the earliest Christian period,
as the Frue Kirke at Aalborg. In one of them
was discovered a small bone cross—perhaps brought
over from Christian lands, as the burning of bodies is
supposed to have gone out of fashion after the
introduction of Christianity in Denmark. Be this as it may,
it proves that the immersion of these lands took place
at a period not very far removed from us in the history
of the world’s creation. Amber, too, is found on the
highest eminences of Stensbæk, in the Vendsyssel
country.
We now turn off to the right, and enter a forest
of beeches, banks clothed with the vintergrøm *
(winter-green) in full blossom ; pass by the manor-house
* Pyrola.
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