"Jutland is certainly the most romantic part of Denmark.
Since I read Steen-Blicher's novels I have felt a real interest for that country.

It seems to me that it must greatly resemble the Lowlands of Scotland.

And gypsies are also found there, are they not ?" "Vagabonds, we call them," said Otto, with an involuntary motion of the mouth.

"They correspond to the name!" "The fishermen, also, on the coast are not much better! Do they still from the pulpit pray for wrecks?
Do they still slay shipwrecked mariners ?" "I have heard our preacher, who is an old man, relate how, in the first years after he had obtained his office and dignity, he was obliged to pray in the church that, if ships stranded, they might strand in his district; but this I have never heard myself.

But with regard to what is related of murdering, why, the fishermen--sea-geese, as they are called--are by no means a tender-hearted people; but it is not as bad as that in our days.