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Chap. XLIX.
CAPTURE OF KING VALDEMAR,
277
count could imprison so powerful a king and his son
without a blow being struck in their behalf, or the
spilling of blood.”
Well might the world be astonished that the
pusillanimous Danes did not rise as one man, and lay waste
with fire and sword the country of Schwerin. The
excuse they assigned was, that their sovereign would have
been removed to some more distant fortress, and his
liberation rendered more difficult to procure. But Henry
of Schwerin was but a petty count, and had the Danes
acted with proper pluck they might easily have invested
his dominions. It is more probable that the øprorious
nobility of those days were glad to be free from the
control of a sovereign who, while he had added to the
national glory of their country, ruled them with a rod
of iron, and repressed with a firm hand their unlawful
enterprises.
We steam past the little island, which still retains
its “ reputation giboyeuse ” — hares and partridges
abound there ; it is now the property of Baron Holstein.
Leaving Assens to the right, we enter the little
harbour of Aarøsund. “ You will have to sleep at
Haderslev,” said a passenger; “ no possible inn at Aarøsund.”
But my faith in Jutland kros is strong; and we found
one, where, had we had leisure and time at our disposal,
we would willingly have lingered some days—a long
one-storied house, built near the fiorde side:
sittingrooms opening on the sward, with garden and large
timber-trees, seats underneath, and bathing-cabins not
far removed. There is no doubt we are again in
Jutland : the air is pure, bracing, and fragrant—quite
different from the soft, mild atmosphere of the islands.
A brother traveller, affected with what he called “ the
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