The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 235
sees everything that happens up here in Den-mark. Every Christmas Eve comes an angel, andtells him that what he has dreamed is right, andthat he may go to sleep in quiet, for that Den-mark is not yet in any real danger ; but when oneesuch a danger comes, then old Holger Danske willrouse himself, so… … son all this about Holger Danske ; and the littleboy knew that what his grandfather told him wastrue. And while the old man sat and told hisstory, he carved an image which was to representHolger Danske, and to be fastened to the prowof a ship; for the old grandfather veas a carverof figure-heads,…
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