Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - LIII
<< 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.
346
BORNHOLM.
Chap. LIII^
when above-ground no one has yet discovered where
tliis aperture may lie—it is hid to mortal eyes. But
they go no farther. No one would dare even this
journey save on holy nights, when the angels protect all
innocent pleasures, for the White Oven bears a bad
reputation, and is generally supposed to be a private
entrance to a certain place, to which bad Danes as well
as other folks are allowed free access without giving
themselves the unnecessary trouble of crossing over
by long sea from Copenhagen to Bornholm. Having
visited the finest scenery of the cliffs, we clamber
again up the bank’s side: a mercy old grandfather,
whom we passed cutting wood and who must be eighty
at the very least, did not accompany us; down he may
have got, but it would have required all the virtues of
the Holy Well to have dragged him up again. We
return to the farm-house. A carpenter is occupied
putting in the double windows; of course, he asks
whether we use them in England. “ Seldom ;• they
are not required in our mild climate; besides, in our
old country houses the windows close hermetically;
there is never any draught—none, with us, particularly
on the northern aspects. Our windows never rattle,
much less let in the air.”
We are now under weigh again, pass by the church of
Rø, on whose door you may still see the iron hinge formed
out of the hook left by the Trolles,—iron smelted by
themselves, no doubt, for Bornholm is said to abound
in minerals, though they have been but little worked.
In old books you read accounts of a gold-mine, such
as existed once in Scotland and other localities. King
Christian IV. caused ducats to be coined, but the foreign
merchants would not allow the gold to be real; so the
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
