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132
HOBRØ.
Chap. XXXVIII.
uncle James III. King of Scotland, husband of the
Princess Margaret of Denmark.*
Our hotel was once a house of some importance, built
in the last century by Brigadier-General Hailing, an
officer in the English East India service he called
himself. As a boy he had run away to sea, made his
fortune in the East, and returned to end his days with
honour in his native land. It was later discovered he
had been a daring pirate, the terror of our English
homewardbound Indiamen, and that the “honourably
gained fortune ” was the plunder of the captured
vessels ; the viking spirit bursting out, only eight hundred
years too late: otherwise he might have been a smaa
konge, and buried in a giant’s chamber, his arms and
ornaments around him.
HOBR0.
6th July.—We have changed our plans, and, instead
of floating down the Liimfiorde, adjourn first to Viborg,
where papers and letters await us.
* A large number of Scots, says the historian, came at that time to
Copenhagen. They were highly esteemed as warsmen, equal to the
Germans and the Swiss. This caused great jealousy; and one day, when
the Scots were assembled at a drinking-house, the Germans gathered
round the house and challenged the Scots to come out. The Scots,
finding their adversaries too numerous, refused; so the Germans set
fire to the house, and the Scots had to crawl up to the roof, whence
they threw down stones; but as the fire advanced they were compelled
to jump down, and were all killed. The Germans took possession of
the town and ran through the streets slaying every Scot they met.
When the king heard of this uproar he came out and endeavoured to
restore order, but without effect, though he rode through the streets on
horseback. When he arrived at the Amagertorv, a Scot threw
himself under the king’s horse, demanding protection; but the German
had no respect for the king, and slew the Scot under his horse’s feet;
for which outrage he was however afterwards beheaded.
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