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Jacob A. Riis. Hero Tales of the Far North
Hero Tales of the Far North
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FOREWORD
A KNIGHT ERRANT OF THE SEA
HANS EGEDE, THE APOSTLE TO GREENLAND
GUSTAV VASA, THE FATHER OF SWEDEN
ABSALON, WARRIOR BISHOP OF THE NORTH
KING VALDEMAR, AND THE STORY OF THE DANNEBROG
HOW THE GHOST OF THE HEATH WAS LAID
KING CHRISTIAN IV
GUSTAV ADOLF, THE SNOW-KING
KING AND SAILOR, HEROES OF COPENHAGEN
THE TROOPER WHO WON A WAR ALONE
CARL LINNÉ, KING OF THE FLOWERS
NIELS FINSEN, THE WOLF-SLAYER
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Jacob A. Riis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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King Charles, himself a knightly soul and an admirer of a gallant enemy, gave orders to have all Tordenskjold's belongings sent back to him, but he did not live to see the order carried out. He was found dead in the rifle-pits before Frederiksteen on December 11, 1718, shot through the head. It was Tordenskjold himself who brought the all-important news to King Frederik in the night of December 28—they were not the days of telegraphs and fast steamers—and when the King, who had been roused out of bed to receive him, could not trust his ears, he said with characteristic audacity, "I wish it were as true that your Majesty had made me a schoutbynacht,"—the rank next below admiral. And so he took the step next to the last on the ladder of his ambition.
Within seven months he took Marstrand. It is part of the record of that astonishing performance that when the unhappy Commandant hesitated as the hour of evacuation came, not sure that he had done right in capitulating, Tordenskjold walked up to the fort with a hundred men, half his force, banged on the gate, went in alone and up to the Commandant's window, thundering out:
