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Updated: June 16, 2025
King Valdemar built the castle he had begun before he sailed home, and called it Reval, after one of the neighboring tribes. The Russian city of that name grew up about it and about the church which Archbishop Anders reared. The Dannebrog became its arms, and its people call it to this day "the city of the Danes." Denmark was now at the height of her glory.
He knew the island well, and when his spies told him that the king and his son Valdemar had landed at Lyö with a small following of huntsmen and servants, Black Henry prepared to carry out his plot. The king's first day's hunt was a hard one and he and his son slept soundly that night in the rude hut that had been put up for their use.
It is held to be much more probable that this banner, bearing a white cross on a blood-red field, was sent by the Pope to Valdemar as a token of his favor and support, and that its sudden appearance, when the Danes were beginning to waver before the pagan assaults, gave them the spirit that led to victory. The result, in those days of superstition, naturally gave rise to the legend.
The capricious wind had suddenly arisen, and a moaning whisper coming from the adjacent hills gave warning of another storm. Valdemar hurriedly retraced his steps back to the house, his work with the Valkyrie had occupied him more than an hour the bonde, his friend and master, might have died during his absence!
Panshine appeared in a black dress-coat, buttoned all the way up, and wearing a high English shirt-collar. "It was painful for me to obey; but, you see, I have come;" that was what was expressed by his serious face, evidently just shaved for the occasion. "Why, Valdemar!" exclaimed Maria Dmitrievna, "you used always to come in without being announced."
The numberless cairns that lie scattered over it, sometimes strung out for miles as if marking the highways of the ancients, which they doubtless do, sometimes grouped where their villages stood, bear witness to it. Great battles account for their share, and some of them were fought in historic times. On Grathe Heath the young King Valdemar overcame his treacherous rival Svend.
Yet poor as was the state of Denmark when Valdemar came to it as king, when he died he left it a flourishing, busy and peaceful country, to which he had added great tracts of land on the pagan shores of the Baltic, whose people he forced to give up their heathen practices. During his reign Valdemar made as many as twenty expeditions against these piratical peoples, gradually subduing them.
Now and then a shaft of sunlight fell on some glittering point of felspar or green patch of verdure. and Valdemar Svensen stated that he knew of a sandy creek where, if the party chose, they could land and see a small cave of exquisite beauty, literally hung all over with stalactites. "I never heard of this cave," said Gueldmar, fixing a keen eye on the pilot.
As he uttered these words he smiled; and with one wistful, yearning look at him, Valdemar obediently and instantly departed. He left the house, carrying with him a huge pile of dry brushwood, and with the air of a man strung up to prompt action, rapidly descended the sloping path, thick with hardened snow, that led downwards to the Fjord. On reaching the shore, he looked anxiously about him.
In the grief and bewilderment of the time, Valdemar entirely forgot to tell him that a letter from Thelma had arrived for him on the previous afternoon while he was away at Talvig, and was even now on the shelf above the chimney, awaiting perusal. Gueldmar, ignorant of this, began to write slowly and with firmness, disregarding his rapidly sinking strength.
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