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TØRNING.
Chap. XLVI.
And when they take the body of their mother from the
bad-stue, she was— *
“ As a goose roasted for Christmas.”
“But King Valdemar he can love them both”—not the
goose—but Tovelil and Queen Sofie.
Such was the fate of the Danish Fair Rosamond,
roasted to rags in a vapour-bath.
TØRNING.
July 25th.—We leave Ribe betimes for Haderslev,
first stopping a mile from the town, at the village of
Tørning, beautifully situated in a picturesque valley,
by a mill, to visit the Tinghuus, the most ancient in
the kingdom of Denmark. We might have saved
ourselves the trouble: the Tinghuus is now no more;
the great salle is divided into cottages; some of the
panellings, painted with the arms of the earlier
sovereigns, are still visible. The Ting has been of late
years transferred to the adjoining kro, where politicians
can quaff ale and discuss politics at the same time.
Here arose the first dispute between King Christian
and the peasantry of Slesvig, in consequence of the
motto to that sovereign’s shield being hung up written
in the German language instead of the Danish. They
tore down the wäpen ; a revolution was nearly stirred
up. The king, however, on the application of the
peasants, allowed another to be painted, and the
obnoxious motto removed, “ for,” said they, “ we are not
Germans, but of South Jutland.”
In the northern provinces of Jutland these Tings
were held in the open air; we frequently came across
hillocks called “ Ting Høis.”
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