Dyndmosen - engelsk
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Near the small tree-lined fen visible in the hollow facing east, an event took place in the summer of 1805; an event later known as the notorious ’Tunø-war’.
Near the small tree-lined fen visible in the hollow facing east, an event took place in the summer of 1805; an event later known as the notorious ’Tunø-war’.
The poet-priest-to-be Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848) went hunting on Tunø with his father and the gamekeeper from a nearby manor. Arriving at the fen Dyndmosen, the hunting party began to shoot duck. The shots frightened some horses that were tethered nearby. This resulted in the horses breaking free and running into a field of crops where they created havoc.
The hunting party continued their shooting, but the islanders became very resentful. At least a dozen farm hands on horseback caught up with the three huntsmen and surrounded them as they, bags filled, were on their way back to their boat that had been moored at Stenkalven. The islanders gave them a good telling off. An apology could have settled the matter there and then, but the hunting party was not to be crossed in this way and gave the islanders a rude reply back.
The islanders are reported to have said, ‘Let’s take their guns, shoot their dog and give ‘em what for’.
The hunting party held firm by pointing their shotguns at the islanders, who then retreated only to summon back-up and fetch their weapons. The hunting party ran as fast as they could back to their boat that would prove to be their rescue. They boarded and put out to sea just as the islanders returned to Stenkalven.
During the ‘fight’, the gamekeeper had been terrified, but now, safe in the boat and as a sign of victory, he fired shots ‘Victoria-fashion’ above the heads of the enemy. Blicher later admitted that an apology, indeed, would have been the decent thing to do.