Chapter I: Front Matter

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

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--Lygtemaend

CHAPTER XII.

Horse racing in Denmark--A horse race

CHAPTER XIII.

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

CHAPTER XIV.

Folketro--Havmaend--Havfruer--The gnome of the elder tree--Varulv--Marer--Strandvarsler--Kirkegrim

CHAPTER XV.

The Pastor and his daughter--The Scotch landscape gardener--Folkeviser

CHAPTER XVI.

Trout fishing--The legend of the Aamaend--Changelings--Wise men and wise women--Dvaerge--Tyge Brahe--Herr Eske Brok--The family Rosenkrands

CHAPTER 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