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Chap. XLIX.
LYø ISLAND.
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CHAPTER XLIX.
The Island of Lyø — Capture of King Valdemar by his treacherous
vassal — Kirstine Munk and her children — Horns of Wedellsborg —
Marksmen of Middelfart—Suogbøi in Jutland — Brahe, the King
of Funen — Island of Thorø, and Balder’s stone — Ellen Marsviin
married again; turns cattle-dealer — Her game of cards with the
king — Island of Langeland and the giant Rud — Sir Otto Krump’s
defence of Tranekjær.
ISLAND OF LYØ.
August lOt/i.—We had imagined a steamer to Assens,
but find it goes alternate days, and to-day we
must sleep on the opposite coast, at Aarøsund, in
Jutland. We pass by the island of Thorseng, terribly
in the way; it blocks up the beautiful Svendborg
fiorde, while it adds but little to the view. Coasting
by St. George’s wood and village, a very archipelago
of small islets, Skaarø, and half a dozen other 0s,
make their appearance. They are all flat and
uninteresting, and the banks of Funen itself nothing to
speak of. At last we enter a fiorde, and the little town
of Faaborg lies before us, distinguished from her sisters
by her praiseworthy attempt at a quay, and avenues
planted along its side. Faaborg might become a
watering-place, and prosper, if it only would have
lodging-houses by the water-side. We unload some
pedestrian students, pipe in mouth and valise in hand—
I should not like to walk through Funen, or indeed
Denmark, much too flat and dusty—and then proceed.
Steam past Bear Island; and now, after turning the
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