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Chap. LII.
OLSKER.
331
of Denmark, small and black streaked. We passed
by one bog, where the men were engaged cutting turf;
huge trunks of oak are here discovered, black as
ebony, like the Irish—in the moors of Jutland, oak is
unknown. We then turn down a descent, and drive
into the little town of Allinge.
We had a long conversation about the Trolles,
most important personages in this island of Bornholm.
In the year 1624, about the very time Parson Bemholt
was preaching his long-winded sermons, the clergyman
of St. Peter’s writes a statistical account of his parish
to Copenhagen. Among sundry matters of no account,
he proceeds to relate:—
“ In a høi called Faalhøi the Trolles are said to
reside, and there lives now a girl who has passed many
years with them underground, and borne by them eight
children. The girl’s name is Karen.”
The favourite hero of Trolledom is a certain
Bonde-vedde, who inhabited the parish of St. Peter’s about
the year 1700. Tradition declares him to have been
the offspring of a farmer and a mermaid. On taking
leave of her lover, the mermaid desired him to return
that day year to the same place, and he would find an
infant, an infant who would be endowed with the gift
of seeing and hearing what was said by the Trolles—a
little people, invisible to the eyes of common mortals.
So the farmer did as the mermaid bade him, and in
one year’s time repaired to the very same spot on the
sea-shore, where he found a male child lying in a
cradle delicately framed of seaweeds; not a pearl, not a
coral did the hanfrue suspend round the neck of her
baby; he was a fine healthy blue-eyed child, nothing
more. So the young fanner removed him to his own
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