s Queen Thyra, are buried in two tumuli, or
Kaempehoi, at Jellinge, near Veile. At Queen Thyra's tumulus there was
once a spring of water which sprung up, it is related as evidence of
her purity. One day, however, a Bonde washed a horse that had the
glanders at the spring, when it at once dried up.

"At the same place, Jellinge (the final e is pronounced like a), in
the year 1628, a priest called Soren Stefensen was suspected by the
Swedes of being in correspondence with the Danes, when the Swedes were
invading Jutland, and had occupied Jellinge, The messenger who went
with his letters was taken, and a letter was found in a stick he
carried. The Swedes hung him up to his own church door by his beard to
a great hook, and he is said to have hung there a long time; but at
last they took him down, and hung him on a gallows. He was priest at
Veile, and the governor of the Latin school there, from 1614 to 1619."

"In Shakespeare's play of 'Hamlet'" said Hardy, "it is described of
Hamlet's father that he smote the sledded Polaks on the ice."

"Our story of Amlet, not Hamlet, is as follows," said the Pastor. "At
Mors, a place in Jutland, there was a king called Fegge. He had a
tower at a place which is now called Fegge Klit ('klit' is a
sand-hill), and from thence he sent his ships to sea, in the Western
sea, that is your North sea. He and his brother Hvorvendil took turns
to rule at land or at sea, so that one should be at sea three years,
and the other on land three years. Fegge, however, became jealous of
Hvorvendil's power and good luck, and killed him and married his wife,
which murder was avenged by Amlet, her son, who slew Fegge, whose
grave is yet shown at Fegge Klit. The word 'sledded,' is bad Danish
for driving in a sledge. Polak is a Pole, and near Veile they
committed great atrocities. They killed women and children, and stole
the Bonder's cattle; and a man had often to buy his own bullock, and
the price went down to such a degree that the price at last reached
about 2d, (English) for a cow. They were hired by the Swedes to
plunder Denmark. They came to a Praestegaard, near Veile, and stole and
plundered; but a man in the priest's service, called Hans Nielsen,
told the priest's wife to give them all the drink she could. They all
got drunk. Hans Nielsen took away their arms. He then bound them one
by one, and made one of them shoot all the rest, one after the other.
This man confessed he was a Dane, but had joined