itting with
her _rock_ (Dan., _Rok_; Eng., a distaff) and _spoele_ (Dan., _Spole_;
Eng., spool, a small wheel on the spindle); or else she has set both
her _rock_ and her _garnwindle_ (Dan., _Garnvinde_; Eng., reel or
yarn-winder) aside, whilst standing by her _back-bword_ (Dan.,
_Bagebord_; Eng., baking-board) she is about to knead dough (Dan.,
_Deig_), in order to make the oaten-bread commonly used in these
parts, at times, also, barley-bread; for _clap-bread_ (Dan.,
_Klappebroed_, or thin cakes beaten out with the hand), she lays the
dough on the _clap-board_ (Dan., _Klappebord_.) One will also find the
_bord-claith_ spread (Dan., _Bordklaede_; Eng. table-cloth); the people
of the house then sit on the _bank_ or _bink_ (Dan., _Baenk_; Eng.,
bench), and eat _Aandorn_ (Eng., afternoon's repast), or, as it is
called in Jutland and Fuenen, _Onden_ (dinner.) The chimney (_lovver_)
stands in the room; which name may perhaps be connected with the
Scandinavian _lyre_ (Icelandic, _ljori_)--namely, the smoke-hole in
the roof or thatch (_thack_), out of which, in olden times, before
houses had regular chimneys and "_lofts_" (Dan., _Loft_; Eng., roof,
an upper room), the smoke (_reek_ or _reik_, Dan., _Roeg_) left the
dark (_mirk_ or _murk_, Dan., _Moerk_) room. Within is the _bower_ or
_boor_ (Eng., bed-chamber), in Danish, _Buur_; as, for instance, in
the old Danish word _Jomfrubuur_ (the maiden's chamber), and in the
modern word _Fadebuur_ (the pantry.)'

Mr Worsaae only speaks the truth when he remarks how the name of the
Danes has been impressed on the English mind. 'Legends about the Danes
are,' he says, 'very much disseminated among the people, even in the
south of England. There is scarce a parish that has not in some way or
another preserved the remembrance of them. Sometimes, they are
recorded to have burned churches and castles, and to have destroyed
towns, whose inhabitants were put to the sword; sometimes, they are
said to have burned or cut down forests; here are shewn the remains of
large earthen mounds and fortifications which they erected; there,
again, places are pointed out where bloody battles were fought with
them. To this must be added the names of places--as, the
_Danes-walls_, the _Danish forts_, the _Dane-field_, the
_Dane-forest_, the _Danes-banks_, and many others of the like kind.
Traces of Danish castles and ramparts are not only found in the
southern and south-eastern parts of England, but also qui