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AGGER CANAL.
Chap. XLI.
We passed the Great Canal in a pilot-boat, and then
drove across the smaller one, now entirely closed “ to
the public.”
This caprice of the waters is not, however, of modern
times, for we find by history that in the year 1050,
Harald Haarderaade, escaping from Svend Estridsen,
was compelled to transport his fleet across the sands into
the North Sea, over the banks which still bear the name
of Haraldseid. Some few years later Knud the Holy
passed with his fleet, destined for the conquest of
England, safe without impediment to the North Sea. The first
closing of this passage is supposed to have been caused
by the sinking of a vessel in time of war to
prevent the entrance of the enemy into the Liimfiorde ;
the sand, taking this obstacle as a point d’appui, closed
around it, and gradually caused the stoppage, which
lasted for centuries. We continue our course, rather
wearisome, through the pretty village of Agger by the
Flade lake; pass by the new church—old one long
since embedded in the sand. How slow the man drives!
whole of the batch then baking in the oven turned to stone. One of
these loaves was preserved for a long time in the museum, and the
Czar Peter was so much astonished at the fact that he carried off a
crumb by way of curiosity.
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