in southern Norway, and continues past Lillesand. In Danish, the word may even apply to shallow lagoons. Like fjords, freshwater lakes are often deep. Alcoholic drinks like beer, mead, bjórr (a strong fruit wine) and, for the rich, imported wine, were served. Whatever the rules were, the fights often resulted in the death of one of the stallions. The Schlei and the wetlands between the Danevirke and Husum had frozen solid in a hard winter, and the territory immediately south of the Danevirke had been conquered by the advancing German army. This retreat came as a surprise to the Austro-Prussian army, and almost all of the Danish army succeeded in completing the evacuation. It resulted, however, in the abandonment of important pieces of heavy artillery, and it remains