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Chap. XLIII.
HAVELOCK THE DANE.
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This warrior Bishop of Ribe was a maternal ancestor
of the proprietor of Vosborg. His wife is really too
ugly to look at—painted by the same master. The
clergy, however, of later date seem to have evinced
better taste in the choice of their help-meets.
The farm of Vosborg is the most considerable in
all Jutland. We are more in the grazing line here—
beeves for the English market—but somehow or other,
when in the library, poring among the old tomes, I
forgot all about the farm.
We were talking over the English names, of which
so many are to be met with in Denmark, when a lady,
who devotes herself to teaching in the poor schools of
Copenhagen, told us of the intense interest taken by the
school children during the Indian war in tlie fortunes
of Sir Henry Havelock, our British general.
The morning the news of his death arrived she found
the whole of her school dissolved in tears, weeping
their very hearts out, for they looked upon him as their
own countryman—the very Havelock the Dane of the
popular ballad—the lapse of nine or ten centuries
being nothing to an infant mind. Sir Henry was more
grieved over by the children of Denmark from this
early nursery association than by those of the British
Empire. The story of Havelock* is by the earliest
was condemned to be executed, 9th January, 1623, and the proceeds
of a legacy of 500 thalers of “ decollate virginia ” is still enjoyed by
the university of Copenhagen.
Peter Bognførre, curate of Bjergby in Vendsyssel, was accused of
having bewitched the parish priest of Asdal, who was suddenly seized
with a fit of stammering whenever he entered the pulpit. He was
later summoned before King Christian, condemned to death, and burnt
at the stake.
* The Story of Havelock the Dane.
Ethelwald, King of England, had an only daughter, whom, at his
death, he confided to the care of Godrich Earl of Cornwall. The
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