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The bog people
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Author: Prof. Glob P.V.
Year: 1965
Fear of ghosts has persisted even into more recent times in some parts of the country. There used to be an absolute plague of ghosts at certain times on a hill at Dynved, in the north-west of the island of Als. As luck would have it, about 50 years ago, there lived on the other side of the straits of Als, on the Jutland mainland, a clergyman strong enough to cope with this state of affairs. One day he appeared on the hill with a heavy oak stake and a hammer, walked around for a while on the hillside and finally drove in the stake at a spot where there was nothing in particular to be seen. From then on peace reigned on the hill. Forty years later, a museum official, J. Faben, from Sønderborg Castle, undertaking an investigation of the hill for quite different reasons, came upon a 1000-year-old Viking grave. The Viking's breast was still transfixed by the point of the stake the clergyman had driven in.
1965. Tr. 1971.
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