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FANØ.
Chap. XLV.
one of those old repousse plates once used for serving
bridal cakes at the wedding feast, but now, my
informant said, cpiite old-fashioned.
A tradition of Fanø relates that in days of yore
Queen Thyre Danebod was wrecked off this coast,
and on her arrival from England first set foot on
Danish ground in the adjoining “Isle of Man,” spelt
just like our own island of the Irish Channel, which
was once also a Danish possession.* Here on her first
arrival from England, mark, was Queen Thyre wrecked,
which leads us to suppose she was, as old Saxo
Grammaticus declares, a daughter of King Ethelred, though
the Danes now deny it—old Gorm was much too
sensible to lug women about on his expedition against King
Alfred. In gratitude, a “ thankoffering ” for her
preservation, she gave sundry fields to the church of Man :
fields covered with buildings, so they say, which are to
this present day called Manø Hølade ; to the church of
Fanø she presented a font of granite. We entered the
* In 12G6 Magnus, son of Hakon, King of Norway, concluded a
treaty with Alexander IH. of Scotland, by which he yielded to him,
in perpetuity, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man, with the patronage of
the bishopric. The prelates of the Isle of Man had no seat in the
British House of Peers, for, till the Reformation, they acknowledged
as their metropolitan the Archbishop of Tronyem, and had until the
turning over to Sweden of the kingdom of Norway, and may, for what
I know, still have, a right to a seat in the Stor-thing of that country,
though, as may be imagined, the right was seldom exercised. Endless
were the negociations entered upon between the Scottish and the
Danish sovereigns as regards the islands of Sodor and Man, and it
was some years before the whole affair was amicably arranged by the
marriage of the Princess Margaret to James HI. So careful, however,
were they of their rights, that a clause was entered into the marriage
contract, by which the princess in case of widowhood is forbidden to
marry the King of England, or any subject of that nation, that they
(these islands) may never fall under the power of the English sovereign.
We got them, however, after all.
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