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Chap. XXXIX.
SKIVE.
145
hard work, surveying the land for the proposed railway
—a pleasant, gentlemanlike set of men; they came
tumbling in, like Macbeth’s witches, each giving an
account of his spiritings, from east, north, south, and
west: one had passed his time among the sands; a
second had sounded the never-ending moses, forty-five
feet deep here, and there no bottom to be found;
a third has passed his week pleasantly enough on the
wild moor among the sweet thyme and heather under
canvas—he is young, and knows not rheumatism; the
elder ones laugh—he ’ll soon get tired of that work.
One arrives from Portugal, another from Canada : they
like the profession ; they see the world ; and are away,
removed from its conventionalities.
SKIVE.
Monday, 1HÄ July.—A three hours’ journey across
a moorland brings us to Skive, passing on our way
the small village of Fiskbæk—fish rivulet—which here
runs into the Liimfiorde: no scarcity of these streams
in Jutland ; the whole country is intersected with them.
The village, small as it is, boasts a certain historic
notoriety ; and its little church, perched on an
eminence, no doubt to avoid what once was water, with a
grey slate turban to its towers, rising up into a point
like a cock’s feather all on end. /It was from this
pert little village that, in the year 1085, Knud the
Holy assembled an immense fleet preparatory to his
descent upon England, his revolted colony. He
passed with his fleet through the Agger Canal, lately
reopened; then oprøred the Vendel men, and he
had to quell by bribes their insurrection; meanwhile,
his Jutland nobles, tired of delay, and idle outside
VOL. II. L
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