Hero Tales of the Far North

7

Pronounce as Strangle, with the l left out.

8

Pronounced Reebe, in two syllables.

9

A coin, probably.

10

That was the beginning of the Slesvig-Holstein question that troubled Europe to our day; for the fashion set by Abel other rulers of his dukedom followed, and by degrees Slesvig came to be reckoned with the German duchies, whereas up till then it had always been South-Jutland, a part of Denmark proper.

11

Danske Hedeselskab.

12

This is the story as the page told it. He lived two days.

13

It is of record that Queen Sofie Amalie used one-third of the annual revenues of the country for her household. The menu of a single "rustic dinner" of the court mentions 200 courses and nearly as many kinds of preserves and dessert, served on gold, with wines in corresponding abundance.

14

The battle of Copenhagen was fought April 2, 1801.

15

The autopsy which he himself ordered on his death-bed as his last contribution to medical knowledge, showed it to be a slow ossification of the membrane of the heart, involving the liver and all the vital organs. He was "tapped" for dropsy more than twenty times.