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Updated: May 1, 2025
And without, by the Kronenburgh, shone the bright day, and the wind carried the note of the hunting horn over from the neighboring land; the ship sailed past, and saluted, "Boom! boom!" and from the Kronenburgh came the reply, "Boom! boom!" But Holger Danske did not awake, however loudly they shot, for it was only "Good day" and "Thank you!"
There wave the Danish flag and the Swedish flag, and Danes and Swedes say 'Good day' and 'Thank you! to each other, not with cannons, but with a friendly grasp of the hand; and one gets white bread and biscuits from the other for strange fare tastes best. "But the most beautiful of all is the old Kronenburgh; and here it is that Holger Danske sits in the deep, dark cellar, where nobody goes.
In Denmark there lies a castle named Kronenburgh. It lies close by the Oer Sound, where the ships pass through by hundreds every day English, Russian, and likewise Prussian ships.
I remember his face yet; but whence he came, and whither he went, I know not nobody knows. I have often thought he might have been old Holger Danske himself, who had swum down from the Kronenburgh, and aided us in the hour of danger; that was my idea, and there stands his picture."
Yes, Holger Danske may come in many forms, so that one hears in every country of Denmark's strength. But the little lad in the bed saw plainly the old Kronenburgh, with the Oer Sound, and the real Holger Danske, who sat deep below, with his beard grown through the marble table, dreaming of all that happens up here.
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