Chapter 108
The Story of the Wind"NEAR the shores of the great Belt, which is one of the
straits that connect the Cattegat with the Baltic, stands an old
mansion with thick red walls. I know every stone of it," says the
Wind. "I saw it when it was part of the castle of Marck Stig on the
promontory. But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the
stone was used again for the walls of a new mansion on another
spot—the baronial residence of Borreby, which still stands near the
coast. I knew them well, those noble lords and ladies, the
successive generations that dwelt there; and now I'm going to tell
you of Waldemar Daa and his daughters. How proud was his bearing,
for he was of royal blood, and could boast of more noble deeds than
merely hunting the stag and emptying the wi
