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What do you say?" exclaimed the woman. "The truth!" answered the dying one. "God be gracious to me! my children!" She sank back upon the couch, and was dead. "Ah! wonderfully beautiful is God's earth, and worthy it is to live contented." We now return to the hall in Funen, to the family which we left there; but autumn and winter are gone whilst we have been lingering on the past.
Farther, when Wulfsten went from Haethum, or Aarhuus to Truso, he had Weonothland, that is Funen, Fionia, or Fyen to his right; and to the left were, Langeland, Laeland, Falster, and Sconeg; together with Bornholm, Bleking, Moehre, Oeland, and Gotland. But Wendenland remained on his right, all the way to the mouth of the Vistula. Forst. Voy. and Disc. 67.
But whether this violent inundation bring the inhabitants more profit or peril, remains a vexed question. Eastwards, after Jutland, comes the Isle of Funen, cut off from the mainland by a very narrow sound of sea. This faces Jutland on the west, and on the east Zealand, which is famed for its remarkable richness in the necessaries of life.
"I returned again; I often returned again over the Island of Fünen, and the shores of the Belt, and I sat down by Borreby, by the splendid oak wood; there the heron made his nest, and wood-pigeons haunted the place, and blue ravens, and even the black stork. It was still spring; some of them were yet sitting on their eggs, others had already hatched their young.
Only one day and one night, and the birds of passage were back again; the woods made themselves once more young with green, odorous leaves; the Sound had its swimming Venice of richly laden vessels; only one day and one night, and Sophie was removed from Otto they were divided by the salt sea; but it was spring in his heart; from it flew his thoughts, like birds of passage, to the island of Funen, and there sang of summer.
In the stone remained the impression of where he had sat; the hard stone had been softer than the hearts of the rebellious people. Funen is especially rich in such relations. "That cairn elevates itself at Christmas upon four red posts, and one can then see the dance and merriment of the goblins within.
He was at home a year and a day before the ship returned, which had sailed away without him, and an angel had borne him home. The legend, and the place where he woke, were both favorites of mine. From this spot I could see the ocean and Funen. Here I could indulge my fancies; when at home, my sense of duty chained my thoughts only to my books.
The old town, therefore, may have been called Al-haethum, or Haethum; so, that if Ohthere set out from Stockholm for this place, Gotland was on his right hand , and so was Zealand. And as he sailed between Zealand and Funen, or Fyen, all the Danish islands were on his left hand, and he had the wide sea, that is, the Schager-rack, and Cattegat to the right.
He drew closer and closer. "Hi," he said to one of the workers, who was taking a breath, "can a man get taken on here?" The man took a long look at him. "Get taken on here?" he cried, turning more to his comrades than to Lasse. "Ah, you'd like to, would you? Here you foreigners come running, from Funen and Middlefart, and want to take the bread out of the mouths of us natives.
I read it to some acquaintance in Copenhagen; some were struck by it, but most of them only remarked my Funen dialect, which drops the d in every word. At the house of Admiral Wulff I saw many men of the most distinguished talent, and among them all my mind paid the greatest homage to one that was the poet Adam Oehlenschl ger.
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