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Chap. III.
THE TOWN.
43
on mounting to the Belle Vue Garden you gain a
charming view over its purple waters.
On the exterior of the old city gates are emblazoned
the arms of Slesvig, two lions azure on a field or, with
the motto of the fourth Christian, “ Regna firmat
pietas,” “ Piety strengthens the realmand again a
second shield, a turret, from whose loopholes leap
forth two blue lions, which I afterwards (describe it
heraldically I cannot) discovered to be that of the diocese
of Ribe, of which the town of Flensborg forms, or once
formed, part and parcel.
Ancient writers accuse the great Queen Margaret of
having ruined the harbour by sinking huge rocks beneath
its waters, to protect the town against the invasion of
pirate bands.* It was here in the year 1412 this queen
died on board a small merchant vessel, in which she
had embarked for Zealand, some say of the black pest,
others of an internal malady.
But if Flensborg be uninteresting in an historic
point of view, she has at any rate given birth to
some men of note; amongst whom may be numbered
Heinrich Krock, “pictor regius,” as he is termed, to
Kings Frederic IV. and Christian VI., the most tolerable
of the later school of Danish artists. Krock j- was
son of a merchant of this place. He accompanied the
Field-Marshal Gyldenløve, natural son of Frederic III.—
in earlier days all the recognised “ bàtards du sang ”
* 1389. Queen Margaret was not a freetrader—quite the contrary :
all subjects were strictly forbidden to trade with either Greenland, the
Faroe Islands, Heligoland, or Finmark; the commodities produced in
these countries being considered as a regal monopoly—the perquisites
of the Royal pantry.
+ Born 1671.
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