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VIBORG.
Chap. XXXIX.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Pagan city of Viborg — Erik the Lovely and the harper — The Danish
Luther — First of the Longobardi — Sir Niels Bugge and the Castle
of Hald — Murder of King Erik Clipping — Church of Anscarius —
Railway engineer — King Knud’s invasion of England — Manor of
Krabbesholm — Parson Mads the slanderer — Caps of Fuur Island
— Mors, birthplace of Hamlet — His story as told by Saxo.
VIBORG.
The ancient city of Viborg held high her head in
Pagan times, rival to Leira and Sigtuna, for here were
solemnised the chief sacrifices to Odin; and here,
in an open plain before the town, were elected the
Danish sovereigns for the provinces of Jutland.
Numerous and important were the events in history
which here took* place; far too dry and tiresome to
enumerate: one alone I will mention.
It was early in the 11th century that Erik the Lovely,
driven to madness by the strains of a wandering harper,
slew four of his ministers; and to atone for his crime
made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Then up rose
all the Jutlanders imploring him not to leave them, and
offering one third of their goods to purchase his peace
with heaven: they wept, they begged on their bended
knees, but of no avail. He started and died on his
way at Cyprus, before his pilgrimage was completed.*
* Erik Eigod was one of the natural sons of Svend Estridsen.
From the time of Canute the Great till Valdemar I. no difference
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