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336 BORNHOLM. Chap. LIL
now—the victory will be ours—hurrah ! hurrah 1” and
they were at once wild with joy and delight.* Well,
it turned out as they expected; the Germans were
repulsed and kicked out of the country, though whether the
Trolles had much to do with the matter is uncertain.
Educate the people as you may—and an excellent
education all the Danish nation receive, from highest
to lowest—you will find it difficult to eradicate from the
heads of the peasants the belief, handed down from
father to son, in the existence of the Trolles, who dwell
within the hois and heights of the sea-girt island of
Bornholm.
11 Well, sir,” concluded the coachman, “I’m glad you
don’t laugh at the Trolles, for most of our people believe
in them. I can’t say I have ever seen them myself;
but of a night, in the forest of Alminde and along the
sea-coast, I have seen fights wandering about up and
down among the woods and the rocks, and followed them,
too ; but where they came from, or where they went to,
I never could tell. I fancy the Trolles must have had
something to do with it.” “No doubt,” I replied. Was
I wrong ? Ought I to have unveiled to him the fallacies
of igneous"’gases, of jack o’ lanterns, &c. ? May be I
should ; but I left him to his simple belief.
At the house of old Mrs. Kurts, in the sea-washed town
of Allinge, we stayed but the time necessary to leave
our portmanteau and order dinner to be ready for our
return, then started on our way to Hammershuus, two
miles distant.
The little town of Allinge straggles along by the
sea-side. If it wished to extend, it must extend itself
* This anecdote was related to me by the Amtmann.
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