mains
undisturbed, and as often as any one has attempted to throw it down,
whatever is thrown down in the day is replaced again in the night.

* * * * *

Three men went once in the night-time to Klumhoei to try their luck, for
a dragon watches there over a great treasure. They dug into the ground,
giving each other a strict charge not to utter a word whatever might
happen, otherwise all their labour would be in vain. When they had dug
pretty deep, their spades struck against a copper chest. They then made
signs to one another, and all, with both hands, laid hold of a great
copper ring that was on the top of the chest, and pulled up the
treasure. When they had just got it into their possession, one of them
forgot the necessity of silence, and shouted out--

"One pull more, and we have it!"

That very instant the chest flew away out of their hands to the lake
Stoeierup, but as they all held hard on the ring it remained in their
grasp. They went and fastened the ring on the door of St. Olaf's church,
and there it remains to this very day.

* * * * *

Near Dangstrup there is a hill which is called Dangbjerg Dons. Of this
hill it is related that it is at all times covered with a blue mist, and
that under it there lies a large copper kettle full of money. One night
two men went there to dig after this treasure, and they had got so far
as to lay hold of the handle of the kettle. All sorts of wonderful
things began then to appear to disturb them at their work. One time a
coach, drawn by four black horses, drove by them. Then they saw a black
dog with a fiery tongue. Then there came a cock drawing a load of hay.
Still the men persisted in not letting themselves speak, and still dug
on without stopping. At last a fellow came limping up to them and said--

"See, Dangstrup is on fire!"

When the men looked towards the town, it appeared exactly as if the
whole place were in a bright flame. Then at length one of the men forgot
to keep silence, and the moment he uttered an exclamation the treasure
sank deeper and deeper, and as often since as any attempt has been made
to get it up, the trolls have, by their spells and artifices, prevented
its success.

HOLGER DANSKE.

The Danish peasantry of the present day relate many wonderful things of
an ancient hero whom they name Holger Danske, _i.e_. Danish Holger,
and to whom they ascribe wonderful strength and d