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JUELLINGE.
Chap. L.
side, but went her own ways steadily, unflinchingly,
mixing herself up with the rabidities of neither party.
Many old carvings still remain. Hanging in the church
you will see a picture, representing a man in a
clergyman’s dress, together with his wife, one living child,
and eight dead infants in their swaddling clothes,
concerning which the old woman wsho keeps the keys will
relate a story. This man was curate of Helsted, and
once refused to bury the corpse of an unbaptised infant.
The mother prayed him earnestly, but he refused,
using harsh words, “ I will not cast earth upon puppies.”
Then the woman cursed him, and prayed his wife might
never bear him a living child. The curse was fulfilled;
eight dead children were born one after another, and it
was not until he was induced to bury an unchristened
child that the boy you see in the epitaphium was born
alive.
The chapel of the Rud family is worth a glance.
Fine old sepulchral slabs of the 16th century. Whether
they be descendants of the giant of Rudkjøping,
history relates not, but they were stalwart knights,
men of thew and sinew, in their days, connected with
all the best blood of Denmark—Fleming, Byng, and
Høg, among the rest—as you may see by the border of
escutcheons which surround their effigies. Of this
family was Sir Otto Rud, a gallant warrior in his day,
and much beloved of his sovereign the good King John,
for he was a boon companion, and they loved to joke
together. One day," as the king was poring over his
favourite book, the ‘History of King Arthur and his
Round Table,’ he turned to Sir Otto, and exclaimed,
“Where now, in the present day, could I find such
knights as Gavin, Sir Ivan, and the rest of them?”
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