The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

G2SCANDINAVIA.A little to the north-west is the old royal castle of Jelling, where are to be seen thetumuli raised about 960 to Gorm and Thyra by their son Harald " of the BlueTooth."Like Vejle, Horsens stands at the head of a fiord, whereas Aarhus, thelargest town in Jylland, is built on the coast, and has a well-sheltered harbour.It is the central station of the Jylland railway system, and the chief point of communicationwith Copenhagen. Formerly the political centre was Viborg, whichstands on the shores of a lake in the heart of the peninsula.It was the principalresidence of the old Danish kings, and its cathedral, recently rebuilt, is one of thefinest churches in Denmark. East of it lies Sanders, communicating directlywith the sea by a winding fiord, though large vessels get no farther than the deepanchorage of Udbyhoi, near its mouth.Banders is a chief centre of the manufactureof the so-called " Swedish gloves."Aalborg, stretching along the south bank of the Lim -fiord, here crossed by afine railway bridge, has a brisk trade, though the bar gives access to small craftonly. Yet a large seaport and harbour of refuge are much needed at this placebetween the two stormy channels of the Kattegat and Skager Rak. Here areyearly wrecked some thirty or forty of the forty or fifty thousand vessels passingthrough the straits, and in November, 1876, thirty-nine foundered at Vejle.port of Ffederikshavn, south of the Skaw, is quite inadequate as a harbour ofrefuge, and the idea has been entertained of enlarging it by enclosing theneighbouring islets of Hirtsholmene. The town of Sltagen, at the Skaw, isthe most important Danish fishing station. Here vast quantities of whiting,cod, turbot, soles, and other fish are taken and shipped for Copenhagen and otherplaces.On the island of Fyen stands Odense, the " Town of Odin," one of the oldestplaces in Denmark. The cathedral contains some royal tombs, and it is thebirthplace of the delightful writer of children's tales, Andersen. Although atsome distance from the sea, it is the centre of a considerable trade, promoted bythe line of railway crossing the island and placing it in direct comrminication withMiddel/art and Strib, on the Little Belt, and the fortified port of Ni/borg, on theGreat Belt. On the south coast of Fyen, and facing the islet of Taasinge, isSrendborg, an important commercial centre for the neighbouring islands of Taasinge,^Ero, and Langeland, and surrounded by some of the loveliest scenery in Denmark.TheThe brothers Oersted were natives of Langeland, and the great philologistBask was the son of a Fyen peasant.Copenhagen.—Copenhagen (Ejobenhavn), capital of Sjiilland, contains of itselfalone about one-eighth of the entire population of the kingdom, and more than thatof all the other Danish towns together. It is, moreover, something more thanthe capital of a decayed state, still maintaining a special position as a Europeancity, the common property of all the northern nations.Its geographical position, like that of Constantinople, presents a double advantageas the intersecting point of two great highways, the water route from sea to