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Chap. III.
SLESVIG.
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CHAPTER III.
Slesvig — Palace of Gottorp — Murder of St. Niels — Lord Molesworth
the English envoy — Splendour of the Danish funerals — the
Liig-predicaner—Skue penge—Costly interment of Christopher Mogensen
— Silver coffin of a Reventlow Countess — Tomb of Frederic I. —
St. Erik’s chest — Restless spirit of Abel — Anscarius, Apostle of the
North — Synod of Haddeby — Danevirke of Queen Thyre — Death
of Queen Margaret — Krock, “ pictor regius ” — The Sidney of
Flensborg.
SLESVIG.
This now fallen capital of the ancient duchy, winding
along the horde’s side—how can I describe it, but as
one straggle ? A double row of houses scattered along the
bay, now together, now at intervals, on ill terms one
with another; no compact little streets, no cosy squares;
the very buildings, although neighbours, seem to look
opposite ways from sheer unsociableness; the whole
city appears to be built “ outside the barrier,” though
where the barrier may be becomes a puzzle. From the
opposite bank of the horde, however, it stands well,
with the ancient Palace of Gottorp, white and imposing,
backed by the royal wood. It is now a barrack, and
its ancient dukes are no more, the duchy fast attached
to the crown of Denmark, and the rightful chief seated
on a far grander throne, that of the wide-spreading
empire of All the Russias. I have seen engravings of
the Palace of Gottorp some hundred and fifty years
since, when it must have been a grand place, with two
VOL. i. D
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