XVII.

A drive through part of Jutland--Silkeborg--Himmelbjerg Traditions of
Holger Danske--Walling sinners up

CHAPTER XVIII.

Horsens--Veile--Legends--The Swedes in Jutland--Hamlet--Abbot Muus--A
found treasure--The priest at Urlev--Koldinghuus

CHAPTER XIX.

Holsted--Folke Eventyr--The story of the priest and his clerk--Of the
queen who was walled up seventeen years--Of the Trold and the
boy--Esbjerg

CHAPTER XX.

In England--Hardy Place--Mrs. Hardy--Correspondence with Denmark

CHAPTER XXI.

Mrs. Hardy visits Denmark--Helga Lindal--The yacht sails for
Copenhagen

CHAPTER XXII.

Yachting from Copenhagen to Christiania--Helga Lindal's Birthday

CHAPTER XXIII.

Christiania to Aarhus--Pastor Lindal and the yacht--John Hardy's
wedding-day is fixed--The Domkirke at Aarhus--Traditions and legends

CHAPTER XXIV.

Pastor Lindal joins the yacht for a cruise amongst the Danish
islands--Samso and traditions--Endelave and the giantess--Odense and
its historical traditions--Nyborg--King Christian and the monkey--The
ghost of Queen Helvig--Maerkedage--Svendborg--St. Jorgen and the
Lindorm--The murdered lady--Weather days

CHAPTER XXV.

Vordingborg--Mariebo and traditions--Legend of Borre
Island--Phanefjord and Gronsund--Legends of Phane and Gron--The
pilgrim stone--Drive to Moen's Klint--The Underjordiske--Margrethe
Skaelvig's wedding-dress--The twenty pigs and Gamle
Erik--Praesto--Stevn's Klint--Hoierup--The termination "rup"
explained--Copenhagen to Aarhus

CHAPTER XXVI.

Pastor Lindal's views as to his parish--His daughter's as to her
wedding-dress--The marriage--John Hardy and his wife's arrival at
Hardy Place--With the Pastor--A daughter-in-law's duty--Pastor
Lindal's strong opinions on the English church system--

ARGUMENT

The Viking, _tenax propositi_, if he planned an expedition, carried it
out, through all obstacles, or died in the attempt.

The descendants, softened in manner and cast of thought by centuries
of time, retain the same singleness of purpose.

There is no other thought of the duty of life except to do it. If self
has to be sacrificed, it is done without reserve.

The result is that there are men and women who are the reflection of
duty, and although this occurs in all lands, yet nowhere does it exist
in greater purity than in the descendants of the Viking.

A DANISH PARSONAGE

CHAPTER I.

"_Piscator_.