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Updated: June 1, 2025
Glory Goldie did not have to reply, for he strode past her into the house and went straight over to the big Dalecarlian clock. The girl ran in after him and tried to tell him what a good clock it was, that it ran neither too fast nor too slow and needed no mending. "How can a clock run well that has not been regulated by Johan Utter Agrippa Prästberg!" the old man roared.
Therefore it was best never to let him fool with one's clock. That Glory Goldie knew, of course, but she saw no way of saving the Dalecarlian timepiece, which was ticking away inside the hut. Agrippa knew of the clock being there and had long watched for an opportunity to get at it, but at other times when he was seen thereabout, Katrina had been at home to keep him at a safe distance.
"'Gustav Eriksson Vasa, while in exile and wandering in Dalarne with a view of stirring up the people to fight for Fatherland and Freedom, was saved by the presence of mind of a Dalecarlian woman, and so escaped the troops sent by the Tyrant to arrest him. "'This monument is gratefully erected by the Swedish people to the Liberator." Karen laughed. "How can you remember it so well?" she asked.
One winter's day, it happened that a Dalecarlian peasant mistook the house, and came into Oedmann's chamber in his snow-covered skin cloak, and with his beard full of ice. Oedmann shouted to him to go his way, but the peasant was deaf, and therefore stepped quite close up to the bed.
It was good to relate this to the Laplanders and Dalecarlian peasant girls at Skansen, but what was that compared to being able to tell of it at home? Even if Clement were to end in the poorhouse, it wouldn't be so hard after this. He was a totally different man from what he had been, and he would be respected and honoured in a very different way. This new yearning took possession of Clement.
We are still in the city, but before the palace lie the broad hewn stone stairs, leading down to the water, where the Dalkulls i.e., the Dalecarlian women stand and ring with metal bells. On board! here are boats enough to choose amongst, all with wheels, which the Dalkulls turn.
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