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Chap. XLII.
HOLSTREBRO.
187
astonished eyes ? Not Mogens Munk, but an illicit still
for the fabrication of corn-brandy. Next day came the
excise. The still had disappeared; but on further search
it was discovered on the top of the pulpit
sounding-board.
Decidedly the first Protestant clergy made up for the
celibacy of their predecessors. One ecclesiastic is here
portrayed, together with his wife and eighteen children.
We are in a new beat as regards English names:
there are the Foldings, Jermiins, and the Stranges;
among other noble worthies lies the last descendant of
the house of “Grib,” over whose extinction there is
great lamentation on the epitaphium. Christian III.
gave to Olaf Munk, ex Boman Catholic bishop of Ribe,
the Kloster of Tvis for life as an apanage (foundation of
poor Prince Boris), and there he lived and died. And
now we make for Holstrebro, a pretty little town not
far off, where we stop to dine, and then proceed on our
journey towards Ringkjøbing.
HOLSTREBRO.
We approach the coast, leaving to the left that vast
expanse of uncultivated heath and moor which runs
through the centre of North Jutland, the Ale Mose,
where, towards the village of Rind, the gipsies chiefly
herd: “Natsmandsfolk,” as they are
called—nightmen ; not from their profession, but from the darkness
of their skins. They first made their appearance in
the sixteenth century, when many hordes came over
from the East, and enjoy here as elsewhere a most
unenviable reputation. They are looked upon by their
fellow men as a sort of outlaws, accused of setting fire
to houses, being beggars and thieves. The profession
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