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Updated: August 9, 2024
She placed herself so awkwardly that he laid his hand on her shoulder and asked her, "What do you see?" "Oh!" she said, "I see I see a large farmhouse, which is burning. It has a thatched roof. Oh! Everything is burning; the roof is all in flames. Sparks are flying about. It is really an old Ditmarsh farmhouse." "No, my girl, you have too much imagination, which is bad for science.
Thus called to account for his treachery and wickedness, Black Henry was forced to forego the final cruel exaction of his traitor soul. Misfortune, however, pursued Valdemar. When in 1227 the peasants of Ditmarsh refused to pay the tribute they had long paid the Danish crown, the insult to his weakness was more than the king could endure.
Whether we look to the Greek states, or to Rome, or to the Teutonic aristocracies in Ditmarsh which furnished Niebuhr with so many valuable illustrations, or to the Celtic clan associations, or to that strange social organisation of the Sclavonic Russians and Poles which has only lately attracted notice, everywhere we discover traces of passages in their history when men of alien descent were admitted to, and amalgamated with, the original brotherhood.
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