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HJERM.
Chap. XLII.
new houses; has transformed its privileged kro into an
inn, and reminds me of a Danish drawing-room on
loverdag (Saturday), or cleaning-day; all bustle and mess
—furniture in confusion, half turned out of window.
The women wear a queer costume in these parts—a
shawl tied tight round their heads, with a gag across
their mouths, a preventive against flying sand—like
that worn by Dorothea Queen of Christian I. in her
portrait in the Gallery of Frederiksborg. Their dresses,
as them head-gear, are of homespun tartan.
HJERM.
We arrive at the cleverly-vaulted village church of
Hjerm, where we stop to visit the last resting-place of
Mogens Munk, the leader of the Jutland nobles against
Christian II. He is buried here,* and his monument of
sandstone engraved with an inscription in ancient letters.
On his coffin lie his helmet, sword, and cuirass; but the
vault is now closed to the public; for some years since
occurred a most ridiculous incident. Somebody,
accompanied by many learned men, and especially by a
clever anatomist, Dr. D., proceeded to Hjerm church to
make a descent upon the coffin of Mogens Munk.
“ Don’t open the coffin,” exclaimed the deacon; “ let
the dead lie still.” They proceed to the vault; Dr.
D., measure in hand, prepared to mark down his
latitudes and longitudes, to take a cast of his skull, and
write a treatise upon the subject—to prove the
character of the defunct, by his bumps and the form of
the cranium, diametrically opposite to what history
describes. The lid is uncovered, and what meets their
1558.
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