THE GARDEN BY THE SEA 



shore, and, looking over the Sound, thoughts 

 come to us of King Frederick IFs Queen 

 Sophie, visiting the great Tycho Brahe on the 

 Island of Hveen, and her Majesty's invitation 

 to Tycho Brahe's teacher, Andreas Sb'rensen 

 Vedel, the chief historian of the sixteenth 

 century, to edit the first collection of ballads from 

 the Middle Ages ; the heroic " Kaempeviser," 

 taking its inspiration from the old Northern 

 myths and traditions ; the magical "Trylleviser," 

 with belief in goblins, elves, and sea-monsters, 

 and the tremendous power of Runes ; the 

 " Legende Viser " from Biblical stories and 

 saintly miracles ; the Knightly Lays (" Ridder- 

 viser"), chiefly dwelling on love, and their 

 minute descriptions of life and manners in the 

 castles, of the costumes of knights and dames, 

 having a high historical value ; the Daquiar 

 Ballads, the tales of Marsk Stig and his 

 daughters, Niels Ebbesen and others. These 

 treasures were copied in the Middle Ages by 

 many a noble lady, and thus escaped oblivion. 

 At Hveen remain the ruins of the Palace 

 D'Uranienborg, a magnificent retreat, built by 

 Frederick II, and granted as a dwelling-place 



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