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Chap. XXXIX. THE CATHEDRAL. 139
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Bishop Jørgen Friis, the last Romish prelate of the
diocese, accompanied by his halberdiers, endeavours to
seize the recreant monk, but in vain; he is defended by
the people. The discomfited bishop retires to his castle
of Hald, and later quite forgot himself, for one of the
accusations brought against him in Christian III.’s time
was that he had been heard to say “ he wished himself a
devil to have the plaguing of King Frederic’s soul with
hot and cold in purgatory.” With the Reformation ended
the glories of this ancient city; her monasteries
suppressed, her churches fell soon into decay ; of the
twenty-six which formerly graced her city, three only now remain.
But though Viborg be fallen, her site none can take from
her, on a hill-side overlooking the lake which bears her
name. The cathedral, once her glory, built in the 12th
century by Bishop Niels, has much suffered; it was burnt
nearly to the ground in the earlier part of the last
century, was then restored in the taste of the day ; her
fine granite arcades closed up with plaster, and her
massive stones replaced with brick ; her towers topped with
a jockey-cap—degraded as far as degradation could be
earned. Still her proportions are grand, and the fine
round-arch crypt well repays a visit. Here long after
the Reformation were, masses no longer sung, but
morning prayer said daily in Glipping’s honour. Svend
Grathe has long since disappeared, though they still dis-
and then sent out of the way into Jutland. Near Veirup, in Funen,
were some years since still seen the remains of a smithy in which
Tausen is said to have been born. His father Tago was a smith,
and extracted iron from the moor ; therefore he was looked upon as a
sorcerer, and was killed by the peasants. The place is still said to be
haunted by the wife of Tage, who is heard calling after her husband ;
no one will disturb the ground, and dross and scales of iron are still
found there.
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