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36
SLESVIG.
Chap. III.
Skue penge of John Rantzau.—See p. 20.
course was afterwards printed and distributed, and, by
way of a frontispiece, was adorned with an engraved
portrait of the deceased, and of the monument about to
be erected to his memory; the portrait after a painting
either by Carl van Mander or Peter Isaacs, and engraved
by Haelwech, the man of the day. An excellent
engraver he was; and the collection of these frontispieces
to the funeral sermons have in later days proved
invaluable aids towards the recognition of family and historic
portraits, unknown and
forgotten. Then small
medals, called “ skue
penge,” were coined,
bearing the effigy of the
deceased, sometimes in
silver, often in gold, and
distributed among the
relatives and friends. A
grand funeral, with
epita-phium, a gorgeous coffin,
a sermon preached by Dr.
Matthisen, your portrait
engraved by Haelwech,
and a “skue penge” struck in your honour,—what
more could a man expect from his survivors? How
he died it is not for us to say; but, at any rate, he
was buried as a man of quality ought to be. The most
expensive funeral ever known took place in Frederic
H.’s reign, according to Holberg. A Danish nobleman,
Christopher Mogensen by name, was slain in a naval
fight. Cast him into the sea they could not; a noble
must be buried in Christian ground; wherefore they
sailed with the fleet to Gothland, and laid him in Wisby
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