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Chap. XLV.
AMBER-GATHERING.
223
church, a modern building, erected after the taste of the
inhabitants; and there it stands—circular, misshapen,
and rudely hewn—quite old and primitive enough to
have been the gift of Queen Thyre. But Queen Thyre
does not seem to have been the only person wrecked
off this isle, if you may judge from the flotilla of little
boats suspended to the beams of the village church.
Many are very ancient, and some are as late as the
years ’45 and ’53. The Lutheran Church does not reject,
it appears, these thankofferings of the shipwrecked
mariners.
The people here, as they do at Skagen and other
sandy places, cultivate the melon; but the working of
amber is their staple trade. Quantities of it are picked
up off their coasts. Whether the laws are as arbitrary
as on the shores of Pomerania, where amber is a royal
monopoly, and gibbets were planted on the beach-side
ready to string up the offenders who should pilfer the
royal waifs, I do not know ; but they work it well and ‘
with taste. We returned home to a late dinner, and
start to-morrow early for Ribe.
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