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Chap. XXXIX. BIRTHPLACE OF HAMLET.
151
at this present day, lose no opportunity of singing and
throwing into the faces of the descendants of their
pusillanimous neighbours :—
“ First, then, they ran, the Morsagers,
And next the traitors of Thy.
After them stood the Vendel men ;
But they disdain’d to fly.”
Names of Morsagers written up here, there, and
everywhere, are Hort, Portman, Brinckmann.
We coast along in the open sea, till we turn straight
■between two promontories of land, one of which runs,
high and commanding, out to sea—the very site for
a feudal castle. Two spacious old gabled houses—
once a mill, now a depot for coal—stand by the strand
side. This is Feggeklit, sacred in the eyes of all
Englishmen as the birthplace of our Shakespeare’s
Hamlet—Amleth, as he is called in Denmark. It
Feggeklit, Island oi Murs.
was at Feggeklit, in the island of Mors, in the very
early ages, dwelt two brothers, smaa konges—Haarde-
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