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34
SLESVIG.
Chap. III.
aloes in full bloom standing before the orange-house of
its old-fashioned garden.
It was in one of the nine different palaces or castles
mentioned by historians that King Niels * met with
an untimely end, as indeed did most monarchs in
those unruly ages—murdered by the members of some
secret guild whom he had injured. On this account he
was warned by the burghers not to enter the city ; but
he laughed at their counsels. “ He was not afraid of a
pack of shoemakers and tailorsand, when the tumult
arose, they begged him to take sanctuary in the
church, but he answered that he would rather die in
the palace than that the House of God should be defiled
by a bloody action. His attendants rallied round his
person, but were all slain, together with their master.
After tracing our way through the long narrow street,
we at last approached an ancient gate-tower, surmounted
by a lofty spire; the houses become a little more
compact and sociable; and then, turning off to the right, we
gained the place where stands her ancient cathedral,
side by side with a queer tumbledown belfry. The
exterior, like that of all degraded brick edifices, is
singularly unprepossessing: the colours of the alternate
glazed and common bricks have, in the course of years,
become assimilated. This shabby exterior little
prepared me for the beauties of the church within, which
has lately undergone a thorough restoration at the
expense of the Danish Government. Restorations
sometimes take place too soon; and had that of
Slesvig been postponed, it would have no doubt been
better carried out, for the northern architects are as
* In 1134.
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