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CHAPTER I.

Introductory 1

CHAPTER II.

The Danish Parsonage—Trout fishing on the Gudenaa 11

CHAPTER III.

Rosendal 20

CHAPTER IV.

The Danish Church—The clerical party in Denmark 29

CHAPTER V.

Danish parishioners—The piano—English and Danish horses 37

CHAPTER VI.

Pike, perch, and eel fishing—A silver wedding at a Danish proprietor's 48

CHAPTER VII.

Danish horse-breeding—A fatal accident 60

CHAPTER VIII.

The superstition of the Huldr—The tradition of Gefion—Of Churches—The legend of the sunken mansion—Of the boar Limgrim 72

CHAPTER IX.

Kæmpehøie or tumuli—Hidden treasure—Ghosts—Spectral Huntsmen—Witches—Gypsies—The book of Cyprianus—Nissen—Elle folk 82

CHAPTER X.

The purchase of Rosendal—Pike fishing—Karl Lindal rides the English horse 93

CHAPTER XI.

The legend of the Damhest—The Helhest—The Kirkelam—The Gravso—Burying alive to propitiate supernatural power—Traditions of robbers—The Basilisk—The Lindorm—Lygtemænd 106

CHAPTER XII.

Horse racing in Denmark—A horse race 120

CHAPTER XIII.

Trout fishing in hot weather—Danish ladies riding—A practical visit to Rosendal 135

CHAPTER XIV.

Folketro—Havmænd—Havfruer—The gnome of the elder tree—Varulv—Marer—Strandvarsler—Kirkegrim 149

CHAPTER XV.

The Pastor and his daughter—The Scotch landscape gardener—Folkeviser 164

CHAPTER XVI.

Trout fishing—The legend of the Aamænd—Changelings—Wise men and wise women—Dværge—Tyge Brahe—Herr Eske Brok—The family Rosenkrands 177

CHAPTER XVII.

A drive through part of Jutland—Silkeborg—Himmelbjerg Traditions of Holger Danske—Walling sinners up 189

CHAPTER XVIII.

Horsens—Veile—Legends—The Swedes in Jutland—Hamlet—Abbot Muus—A found treasure—The priest at Urlev—Koldinghuus 201

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 213

CHAPTER XX.

In England—Hardy Place—Mrs. Hardy—Correspondence with Denmark 224

CHAPTER XXI.

Mrs. Hardy visits Denmark—Helga Lindal—The yacht sails for Copenhagen 236

CHAPTER XXII.

Yachting from Copenhagen to Christiania—Helga Lindal's Birthday 251

CHAPTER XXIII.

Christiania to Aarhus—Pastor Lindal and the yacht—John Hardy's wedding-day is fixed—The Domkirke at Aarhus—Traditions and legends 265

CHAPTER XXIV.

Pastor Lindal joins the yacht for a cruise amongst the Danish islands—Samsø and traditions—Endelave and the giantess—Odense and its historical traditions—Nyborg—King Christian and the monkey—The ghost of Queen Helvig—Mærkedage—Svendborg—St. Jørgen and the Lindorm—The murdered lady—Weather days 279

CHAPTER XXV.

Vordingborg—Mariebo and traditions—Legend of Borre Island—Phanefjord and Grønsund—Legends of Phane and Grøn—The pilgrim stone—Drive to Møen's Klint—The Underjordiske—Margrethe Skælvig's wedding-dress—The twenty pigs and Gamle Erik—Præstø—Stevn's Klint—Hoierup—The termination "rup" explained—Copenhagen to Aarhus 293

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—305