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4 We rested after (the games) in Nahr, and next 

 day made our way by a bypath to Burs. Cockchafers 

 hummed and buzzed round our heads. In the following 

 day's ride to R&ne in Grottlingebo we encountered 

 more of the water-nymphs ' (or dragon-flies). He care- 

 fully describes the varieties. 



' Grottlingebo Church, one mile ' [Swedish] ' from 

 RSne, is one of the most considerable in the kingdom ' 

 [of Sweden]. ' A north-east gale prevented our visiting 

 the islands off this coast Inner- and Ytterholm. 



' The elder-bushes here only ripen their fruit about 

 once in six or seven years : yet the unripe berries make 

 as strong a brandy as those fully ripe. 



* Agantyr's grave, as some call it, though some dis- 

 pute it, is a mound or tumulus at the commencement of 

 the promontory, just facing the fine haven of Garnshamn. 

 The island is here very narrow. At and about Fide are 

 many stone walls and large houses, many of them three 

 storeys high. Whether these were formerly castles and 

 strongholds of pirates, or houses for monks or superiors 

 of parishes in Danish times, we cannot tell. It is un- 

 likely that they were mere farmhouses. 



' The beds in which we slept on the east side of the 

 island were all of fine warm and costly eider-down. 

 From Wamlingebo, our night-quarters, we travelled on 

 the storm-torn eastern seaboard, abounding in porpoises, 

 in sight of the small Heligholm (Holy Island), to 

 Hoburg (122 feet), and through Sundre, where we read 

 four runic stones, back to Wamlingebo. The road 



