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Chap. XXXIX.
ISLAND OF MOBS.
We approach the island of Mors—its little capital
Nykiøbing is already in sight—tall church, somewhat
pretentious ; harbour, shipping, and red-roofed houses,
and the indispensable skov at one side. Boat stops for
half an hour, so we disembark and walk about. The
strand is heaped with flounders, and barges unloading turf,
too, which leads you to imagine Mors to be a dry island.
Its church is a good specimen of brickwork, with thirty
-five little niches, once populated by saints, in its two
side gables—whitewashed, and the granite even painted,
gray. It was once the church of Dueholm Kloster,
with whose monks the inhabitants were ever at
loggerheads. These northern churches have always one
advantage over others of more common architecture in
the fine vaulting of their roofs. We have just time to
take a turn through the town—horrid pavement, but
clean ; each window a conservatory—camellias the high
fashion ; whenever a household utensil is cracked,
whatever may have been its use, it receives back rank as a
flower-pot. Mulberries too grow here, as standards, more
than they do at Aalborg.
The Morsagers were not celebrated for their bravery,
if you credit the old ballad on the Vendel boers’ revolt
against Christopher the Bavarian, in which Tornekranz*
lost his head—a ballad which the Vendel men, even
* Tage Heinrich Tomekranz - a very sensible name to apply to an
illegitimate offspring, “Crown of Thorns”—is supposed to have been
a natural son of a Rosenkrantz, and was brought up at the family manor
of Hevringsholm. The family later flourished at Ry, near Silkeborg.
The last abbot of Vidskøl, vitae shola, was of this family, which went
out in the year 1652 ; the last member having lived to be upwards of
a hundred years of age.
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