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liorii and not worth carrying home; but she decided to the contrary and 

 carried it ^vitll lier, with no idea of what it really was. Arrived at home, 

 she washed it and concluded it to be of tin or copper, still of no value. 

 Theie were certain rings upon it which she gave the children to play 

 with. After some days she went to the market town and took with 



her one of these rings to be exam- 

 ined, when it was discovered that 

 the ring- was not only gold, but un- 

 usually flue gold. The King of 

 Dennnirk, Cbristian lA', was then 

 at Gluckstadt with his son, Prince 

 'i Christian. The golden horn was 

 g brought to him, he made recom- 

 *^. pense to tlie girl, and presented 

 J I the horn to his son, the prince. 

 J S He had at fli st the idea to have the 

 ; ':: piece melted and made into a new- 

 ? 2 fashioned, cup, but better counsels 

 ; a prevailed, and a goldsmith was 

 \ % employed to clean and put it in 

 ; I good shape, which he did. It had 

 : ^^- neither cork nor mouthpiece, so no 

 ; i one was able to say whether it had 

 : _-, been used as a music or a drinking 

 ; ^ horn. The gold worker settled the 

 ■ I question for the moment by pre- 

 1 ^ paring a cork with gold trimmings, 

 \ 3 and the horn was ever afterwards 

 ; ^ used as a drinking cup on state oc- 

 I X casions. Its capacity was 5 pints. 

 ' I About one hundred years there- 

 ^ after, April 21, 1734, a poor peas- 

 £ ant named Lassen, or Laritzen, of 



bt ' 



S the same village of Gallehuus, was 

 digging for clay in the field about 

 25 paces from his cabin, when his 

 pick struck an object which shone 

 with great splendor. On digging 

 it out it was found to be the gold 

 horn indicated (fig. 175). Almost 

 a hundred years had passed siiice Kristine Svensdatter had stubbed her 

 toe against the first one and, naturally, there was difticulty in identify- 

 ing the exact spot, but according to tradition, the second was found '6\ 

 paces to the southwest of the first. The horn was cared for by a gold- 

 smith in Tonder, determined to be fine gold, and then placed in the pos- 

 session of Count Otto Diderick Schack, i)roprietor of the domain. It 



