Identifier: summerinnorthern00hami (find matches)
Title: A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hamilton, Charles William
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Publisher: Boston D. D. Nickerson
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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LANDS Munkholm, the island of the Monks. In olden days, before the year looo, it was used as a place of execution. Olaf Tryg- gvesson hung up the heads of Haakon Jarl and his faithless thrall Karker on a gibbet there. At Nidarholm the priests are all singing, Two ghastly heads on the gibbet are swing-ing, One is Jarl Haakons and one is his thralls. And the people are shouting from windowsand walls, While alone in her chamber Swoons Thora, the fairest of women.Thus Longfellow describes the victory ofOlaf in 995, but at the time the island wasuninhabited, so the singing priests is apoetic license. It was Canute of Denmarkand England who founded the Benedictinecloister there in 1028 and the first monkswere Englishmen. In the round tower ofthe fortress on the island, which was erectedin 1658, the Danish statesman Count Grif-fenfeldt was confined for twenty-one yearsduring the reign of Christian V. Sunday, July 20.When I went on deck this morning thecaptain told me to awaken the family as
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The Hullet A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 45 we would soon be at the famous island ofTorghatten, so named because it looks likea big hat floating on the sea. We landedon the east side of the island and scrambledup a rough path to the **Hullett (hole), ahuge, natural tunnel through the mountain,over four hundred feet above the beach, butwhich was evidently excavated by the seabefore it was above the surface of the waves.The height of the opening at the easternend is about sixty-five feet, at the westernend two hundred and forty-six feet. Totallength five hundred and thirty-five feet;breadth thirty-five to fifty-six feet. The viewof the sea below, as seen through this gigan-tic telescope, is very striking. No wonderthe Vikings of old, sailing by and looking upthrough it to the sky beyond, said it wasthe Gate through which the Valkyriesdragged up the heroes to Valhalla. The Northland is a land of romance. Thefishermen, sailing along the coast in stormand mist, hearing the screams of sea-bird

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