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Chap. XXXIX.
FINDERUP.
143
gallant old Jørgen Friis, in 1536, intrenching himself,
defended his castle to the last against his Viborgian
flock, who besieged him; they got the best of it
though, and imprisoned the gallant church militant in
his own tower. Hald then fell to the Crown; afterwards
Guldborg dwelt there, and built the present mansion—
ugly, and now out of repair. We walked to the pretty
hamlet of Bakke, all streamlets and water-wheels, and,
striding through the long grass, scaled the mound where
once stood the earlier castle, surrounded by a double
trench ; the site of the second castle rises well from the
lake, and must have frowned imposing upon its waters.
You may drive round by the other side, if you like; it
will repay your trouble.
FINDERUP.
We took Finderup on our way home merely as a
change—Finderup, where Glipping was, as you already
knqw, basely murdered by Marsk Stig and other Danish
nobles. It was one dark November night—the eve, they
say, of St. Cecilia (1286)—fatigued after a hard day’s
chace, he slept soundly in a farmhouse before the fire ;
his traitor page Rane*—he whom we have seen
executed elsewhere, under the eyes of justly revengeful
Agnes herself—introduces the assassins to the chamber
of his lord. Fifty-six blows from heavy square iron clubs
rain down upon the body of the unlucky sovereign, and
all is over. The assassins fly the vengeance of the
Church and his successor, to meet later the
punishment awarded to their crimes. We passed two days
* Rane was a Hvide, but of a bad stock ; own sister’s son to
Archbishop Jens Grand, most turbulent of prelates.
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