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Chaf. XXXVIII. NAMES OF JUTLAND NOBILITY.
129
not agree with the honour of a Danish lady, and did not
give us a hint of it; if she had done so, then we are
sure Mrs. Kirstine would have never come into that
labyrinth in which she later became entangledand
il how, when the lady Ellen saw it became too bad, and
that the boys and old women pointed fingers after her
daughter in the streets, she commenced crying, and
she would not tell us the reason why she cried.”
The family of the present proprietor, Kammerjunker
de Mylius, kindly did me the honours of the mansion.
Few have suffered more from neglect, devastation, and
injudicious restoration in the former century than
Nør-lund. The towers now are all under restoration. The
room occupied by King Christian on his visit is still
shown—the riddersaal. Upon the chimney-piece, date
1591, appear the effigies and arms of Ludvig and Ellen—
young Ellen no longer, but Ellen fat, fair, and forty—
overblown. She made a great mistake in not having
had her bust taken soon after her marriage, before she
ran to fat. The arms of Ellen puzzled me much—a
heavy-looking fish straddling over a bend in a most
uncomfortable position; but, on referring to my
dictionary, I find Marsviin signifies porpoise. There is no
romance about the names of the early Jutland nobility.
Ellen Porpoise! all sentiment is at an end. Names
derived from the swine tribe too were much in vogue—
Urne, boar; Galt, hog; Griis, pig. In the wars of the
Counts, 1534, we have a noble knight, Sir Bagge Griis,
who is killed by a tile thrown from the house-top on
his head by Peter Bedske (bitter), of Klampgaard, the
shoemaker. Then we have Oxe, Kalf, Daa, Dyre,
Krabbe, Trolle ;* Ulvstand, wolfstooth (quite refreshing) ;
* When Harved Ulf went to fetch homo his bride Mechtild, sistor
VOL. II. K
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