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RINGKJØBING.
Chap. XLIV.
wrecked off the coast, by the Nissum Fiorde. It
fell, however, tongue uppermost, and lies imbedded in
the sand; when the tide is low on a summer’s eve,
its music may still be heard by the fishermen who ply
their crafts on the water; such music, so beautiful,
they say the like was never heard. As for the other
bell, her tones are sad and melancholy: no wonder—
she wants to come down to her sister.
Thimgaard was a splendid castle, but has lately
disappeared, and is now in the hands of peasants. King
Frederic II. here often visited rich Peter
Gyldenstierne, who dearly loved all pomp and state. The
twelve stones on which his twelve retainers, in gorgeous
liveries, stood bownng to the ground each time he
quitted his house, still stand in their ancient places.
Peter Gyldenstierne was grandson to the cousin of
Torben Oxe, who caused poor Dyveke’s stone to be
removed from the church of Elsinore, and placed at the
entrance of his manor of Thimgaard, to be “ spat upon ”
by each peasant as he went by the gate. When Thim
manor passed into other hands the stone was sent to
Copenhagen, and stupidly placed among the Runic
stones of the Round Tower.
RINGKJØBING.
We leave the Nissum Fiorde, about to be drained on
the Haarlem principle by English capital, under the
direction of two engineers. Without wishing to prophesy
evil, I pity the shareholders and their money, dependent
on the caprice of the North Sea and west wind on this
most incomprehensible coast of Jutland. We have a
village of Hammet not far off; and now we approach
Ringkjøbing, near which, an island in the fiorde, lies the
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