Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - LII - Island of Bornholm - Nyker
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
328
BORNHOLM.
Chap. LII.
it to the jeweller it was pronounced to be gold. The lad
was well nigh mad for joy; he sent it to Copenhagen,
and at the end of the fortnight received as his
payment the sum of 350 rix-dollars. Well, sir, we
sailed together, and he is still in Australia doing
well, and will return some day, richer and better off
than any of the farmers of the island. It’s a curious
history—is it not, sir ?—his finding that gold ring ; the
people here believe it was all the Trolles’ doings, but
you look on that as nonsense, I have no doubt,”—and he
shut up at once.
We stopped at the village of Nyker, where is the
first of the four round churches for which Bornholm
is celebrated.
NYKER.
The round churches of Nyker and Olsker* are, as
regards the original edifices, built upon the same plan
—a large*round tower, capped “en éteignoir,” with
scale-like slates, evidently constructed as “ church
militants,” to serve as fortresses in time of need; that of Ole
is pierced around with loopholes like a castle turret,
while that of Ny appears to be incomplete. In the
interior, which served for prayer, the roofs are round
vaulted, supported in the centre by one circular massive
column; small external turret staircases lead to the
upper story, through the loopholes of which the
archers and men-at-arms shot forth their arrows; these
churches of Bornholm have a peculiar cachet, with their
picturesque stone belfries apart from the building, a
striped wood and brick upper story and slate pointed
* Ker—kirke, church: Ny-ker, Ols-ker, Lars-ker, &c.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
