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A GIGANTIC TRAGEDY. 85
The Seven Sisters who witnessed the consummation
of this doleful tragedy were petrified with horror.
Those who doubt the authenticity of the foregoing
narrative should go to the spot and examine the evidences
for themselves. There is the mounted Hestmann with
his martial cloak fluno; over his shoulders; there is the
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perforated sou’-wester, and beyond it the drooping fair
one, all turned to stone; there are the messengers, a long
procession of low rocky islands, reaching from the
Hestmann to his love, and there are the Seven Sisters in
stony stillness looking on.
We are told by many very eminent men that we are
not to judge a narrative relating to times long past by
what would be probable or improbable, possible or
impossible, at the present day; but that if the narrative is
minutely circumstantial, and the circumstances are
self-consistent, they afford internal evidence of its truth;
and if, in addition to this internal evidence, we have the
external evidence of monuments and localities that
perfectly correspond with the narrative, these together are
sufficient, and the modern current notions of inherent
probability or improbability, possibility or impossibility,
are not to interfere with our belief. As all these
conditions are fulfilled by the above legend and its
monuments, we are, according to this theory, bound to believe
in the sad story of the Hestmann and his love.
As we sail along the coast, fresh scenes of savage
grandeur continually unfold themselves. The great
inland chain of snowy mountains is well seen about
Rodö, latitude 66|° to 70°. The valleys descending
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