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Chap. XL1I.
GUDUMKLOSTER.
179
you don’t come to the water before you get there.”
You see the lights shining on the other side of the
Liim-fiorde long beforehand.
It was in the war of the seventeenth century that a
Jutland peasant was constrained by force to conduct a
party of Swedes across the moors to the city of Lemvig,
where they were about to raise a “ contribution.”
Now the peasant, before starting, declared that he
would never betray his country, so he led the troop
by a roundabout way, and it was dark before they
arrived at the border of the Liimfiorde. “ Shall we not
soon arrive ? ” exclaimed the captain of the troop. “ Ten
minutes’ gallop and we are there,” replies the peasant;
“ see, those are the lights shining in the distance—en
avant! ” and plunging the spurs into their horses’
flanks, the whole body sprung forward, and fell headlong
into the waters of the Liimfiorde.
On the following morning (it was Christmas-day),
when the people came out from church, they found the
shores of their little bay scattered over with corpses
washed up by the tide; among them the body of the
peasant, who was known to them; and later they heard
how he had sworn never to aid or abet the Swedes in
their design upon the purses of his countrymen.
GUDUMKLOSTER.
1 Sth.—It was six o’clock this morning when we quitted
the little town of Lemvig—Læmwich, as it is written
in King Valdemar’s Jorde Book — a most enviable
little place, where cherry and rose trees train along the
walls, and avenues of horse-chesnuts flourish straight
on their stems. We now say “adieu” to the Liimfiorde
—not quite, for she turns up occasionally : when least ex-
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