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VOSBORG.
Chap. XLIII.
a sacred building, for he who did so was accursed: when
once the mischief was done, you might continue the
work, and no harm come to you. Now, the materials
of Skamm church and cloister were most tempting to
the lords of Norre Vosborg; but no one would risk
his soul’s weal, and remove the first stone of the
ruined chapel. At last a young man, who had served
in foreign parts, excited by liquor, went out in the dead
of night, brought in a huge stone, and cast it in the
court of Vosborg. When sober he was seized with
terror and remorse: and hanged himself the same
night. No suicide can enjoy the rites of Christian
burial; so his corpse was fastened across the backs of
two cows, who fled towards the mose, where they sank
in, and were all immersed together; and the holes
are there still.
Now, however, the lords of the manor pulled down
the chapel with safety, but no one dared touch the
altar-stone ; for there sat a huge black dog, and howled
piteously at all who approached; so the altar-stone lay
for many a year, till the war against the Swedes in the
seventeenth century, when troops were quartered in
the castle. One evening as they sat before the fire in
the great hall, a private related to them this story; and
a corporal who was there, who feared neither God nor
man, declared the devil might have him if he did not
bring home that altar-stone; and, what’s more, he
would take his little daughter with him. The child
trembled, and cried, “ Oh, father, leave me!” but he
dragged her on; and when he saw the dog on the stone
he cried out, “Come forth, you black devil!” Then
the dog, growing greater and greater, seized the man
with his teeth and between his paws, and the corporal
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