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340
BORNHOLM.
Chap. LII.
rising in fantastic crags, like those of our own Channel
islands ; to the right again, across the fresh-water lake
which almost touches the boundaries of the sea, rises
another green and purple hill, on the opposite side
of which you will find a ruined chapel, with a holy well,
dedicated, of all queer dedications, to King Solomon.*
But if the sea-side view is enchanting, the inland is no
less so. Standing upon the walls’ height, you look
down into the green wooded ravine below: on the
other side rises a lofty bankside, scattered with boulders,
trees, turf, broom, heath, and cytisus, all mingling
together in exquisite variety.
The square tower in which Eleanor Ulfeld passed
her year’s confinement; the ruined round tower of the
outer side, fallen in varied and unstudied desolation,
are grand and imposing: even the flora is unlike that
of old castles in general; the wild convolvulus here
leaps and trails itself like a vine along the crumbling
ruins; the sea-pink perfumes the air with its fragrance,
and tufts of the dark-blue dwarf veronica (ærenpriis)
grow luxuriant among the fallen stones. A heavy
stone, fined at the edge to a point, jutted out from
the crumbling wall. After hard pulling it came out—
strong cement that f—and there it lay in my hand, a
massive hammer of the stone age, broken at the place
of piercing, marks of the chisel still visible. What a
pedigree has that hammer I In its early youth smashing
the head and braining some Pagan Scandinavian, in
* King Solomon and the Siege of Troy were favourite subjects of
the middle ages.
f Of home manufacture, too, for the cement-stone abounds in
Bornholm, and great quantities of it, crushed ready for use, are exported in
barrels to Copenhagen, Sweden, and other localities.
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