A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia (1922) (14779579404)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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by a stone table aroundthe base of which his beard has grown.When Denmark needs his aid to free herfrom the conqueror, he will come to life,but that will not take place, according to the legend, until his beard has thrice en-circled the table, and, according to the bestauthority, it has so far only grown two anda half times around the stone pedestal. Itwas a gloomy place to which we descendedand when we saw a huge, white plasterstatue of the champion, faintly gleamingahead in the flickering light of the candlecarried by our guide, we almost had thecreeps. Speaking of ghosts reminds me,they would not allow us to visit the FlagBattery, which is on the Platform beforethe Castle of Elsinore, where Shakespearemakes the ghost in Hamlet walk; they wereprobably afraid of German spies. Alas,poor ghost. As there was nothing moreto see, we went to the hotel for lunch. Af-ter our meal, not caring to visit Hamletsgrave (?), we walked along the main streetof the town until we came to a little park,
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