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NYBORG.
Chap. XLVIII.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Funen continued — King Christian II. and the ape — Deathplace of
Ellen Marsviin— By-laws of Nyborg — Women to be buried alive —
Laws of adulteration — King Ilans’ invitation to his daughter’s
christening — Story of Kai Lykke and the Queen — The rival Nisses
— St. George killed the dragon in Denmark — Svendborg, the Pig
. Castle — Gaas made archbishop — Island of Thorseng the apanage
of Count Valdemar — Portraits of the House of Oldenborg.
NYBORG.
August 3rd.—We have passed some days at Nyborg,
too glad to recruit our minds and bodies in the
comfortable post-house—an inn of times gone by—not all
picturesque and dry-rot like that of Ringkjøping,
but a house built with good large rooms, before the
world began to economise space; very cool and
comfortable. So our eight days fled rapidly by ; we strolled
on the rampart heights, we bathed in the waters of the
fiorde, boated and fished occasionally, and thoroughly
enjoyed ourselves.
Nyborg is not a town of vast pretensions to antiquity ;
it dates its origin from the “New Castle,” long since
gathered to its sister “ borgs.” Valdemar the Great
(though he did beat poor Liden Kirsten to death) was
a very good son of the Church after his own peculiar
manner, and, like many worthy people of the present
century, very fond of proselytising. He preached
Christianity church-militant-wise, fire and sword, among the
heathens of Rugen. Prislav, own brother of pagan
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