PROFESSOR MAAR'S FARM AT 

 NORDSKOV 



Every visitor to Denmark is expected to make an 

 expedition to Elsinore, or more properly Helsingor, 

 and its castle of Kronborg, sacred to the memory of 

 Hamlet, who, if he ever existed at all, lived some- 

 where else about a thousand years before it was built. 

 Still Helsingor remains proud of the connection, as 

 is shown by the fact that the " Hamlet bicycle " is 

 largely advertised upon its walls. Also his grave is 

 shown in the neighbourhood, and a brook a few 

 inches deep in which Ophelia is said to have drowned 

 herself. Lastly, the sixteenth-century castle of Kron- 

 borg is worthy of mention if only because it con- 

 tains some of the very worst pictures that were ever 

 painted. 



Of more interest to me were the farms in this 

 neighbourhood which I visited under the kind guid- 

 ance of Professor Maar. The country between Copen- 

 hagen and Helsingor is pretty and well wooded, but 

 some of the land struck me as badly farmed and foul 

 with weeds. Beech is the prevailing tree ; I saw no 

 elms or oaks. Many charming houses are visible on 

 either side of the railway line, but none of them 

 seemed to be very large. They indicated general 

 prosperity rather than wealth and grandeur. 



Changing at Helsingor into a little country train, 



I went on to Nordskov, a place between 50 and 60 



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