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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 42, 12 February 1864, Page 8

The Caveiiks of Ktjoitoeeg. — There still exists beneath, the! fortress ■ immense; caverns capacle of holding Upwards of a Uiousaud men. These -were, according to tradition, the home of Holger, a Scandinavian Boland, whose feats of marvellous heroism-' are the subject of numerous legends. Holger, the immortal, still haunts these gloomy recesses, but when the country is t threatened, ■ he reapxjears, and putting himself at the 1 head of the army, it becomes invincible. A peasant who had ventured one day into these subtcr-. ramieau passages ' stumbled upon the hero, seated at a stone table which was almost covered with his white beard. "Give me, your 'hand," he said to the peasant, at the same time holding out his own. The farmer, held out a bar of iron. Holger squeezed it so that, the marks ,of his lingers were indented in the metal. "It is wcU," he said, with a smile of satisfaction, "X sec there are still men in Denmark. — Coleman's New Monthly Maga zinc. ; ' .