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VOSBORG.
Chap. XLIII.
French poet known, Geoffroi Ganier, 1147, and styled
Le Lai d’Avalok.
Labour in this country is scarce, and every summer
crowds of the German peasants come over like our
Princess Guldborg was very beautiful, and when she attained the age
of twenty, the time when she was to succeed to the kingdom of her
father, the false earl determined on making his own son king.
At the same period the King of Denmark died under similar
circumstances, and bequeathed his children, Prince Havelock and his
two sisters, to the protection of Godard, who, as the story says, “ was
the greatest scoundrel ever born besides the traitor Judas.” He put
the children for three years in prison, where they suffered from cold
and hunger; at last he put the daughters to death, and Havelock
would have shared their fate had he not on his knees renounced his
right to the crown of Denmark. But Godard soon repents his clemency,
and gives him to his servant Grim to drown. He carries Havelock
home to his hut tied up in a sack, to be thrown at night into the sea ;
but a wonderful light over the boy alarms Grim and his wife; they
discover he is the son of their king, and determine to save him.
Grim flies from Denmark with his family and Havelock : the wind
carries the vessel to England, where Grim lands at the entrance of the
Humber, “ in Lindesey, at the north side.” Here he builds a house
and lives by fishing. The place was called Grimsby, and it is a curious
fact that the town of Grimsby, founded by Grim, enjoyed in early days
exemption from payment of the Sound-duties at Elsinore. Havelock
assists Grim in his work, and in a year of scarcity goes to Lincoln,
where he is employed by Earl Godrich’s cook.
When the earl sees Havelock he determines to marry him to the
Princess Guldborg, and thus fulfil the promise he had given her father,
to get for her the strongest and handsomest man in England. Fearing
treachery from Earl Godrich, Havelock and Iris bride leave Lincoln
for Grimsby. Grim was dead, but his five children are well off, and
receive them kindly. Guldborg is told of the royal birth of Havelock
(in a dream), and “ when from joy she awakes her husband with a
kiss,” he tells her a singular dream he had had himself, which
Guldborg explains as foretelling he should be king. Havelock,
accompanied by Grim’s sons, goes to Denmark, where he is recognised by
Ubbe, who declares in his favour. Godard is taken and condemned,
and Havelock proclaimed Kjpg of Denmark. He returns to England,
conquers Earl Godrich in a battle at Grimsby, and is proclaimed King
of England. King Havelock rewards those who had done him service:
Grim’s daughter, Gunhild, he marries to the Earl of Chester; the cook,
his old master, be creates Earl of Cornwall; and Ubbe becomes
Stadtholder of Denmark, &c. &c.
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