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Chap. V.
CHRISTIAN II. AND MOGENS MUNK.
63
ecclesiastics in any Christian country: * a bull, entitled
the Constitution of Veile—“Cum ecclesia Daciana”
it commences—in which the clergy threaten to lay
under interdict the whole country should the King
ill-treat and offend any member of their community,
and much misery it caused throughout the realm in
later years. It was here, too,f that Christian, second
of his name, received from the hands of Mogens Munk,
deputed by his order, a paper signed by all that was
greatest (and most rebellious) in Jutland, in which, as
one body, the nobles for ever renounced their allegiance.
No one felt desirous to execute the commission. Munk
himself—stout-hearted though he was—dared not
express their sentiments openly, but, on leaving the room,
as though by chance, he let fall his glove, which was
afterwards picked up by a page. Within this glove
was found concealed the determination of the states of
Aarhuus, in a letter addressed to the King.
On arriving at the hotel we found everything in a
state of bustle and excitement, caused by a cattle-fair
in perspective, to commence on the following morning.
Till twelve at night carriages continued to arrive in
succession ; at two the cocks began to crow, the market
people to chatter, and then an end to all sleep and rest.
After breakfast we walked to the church, founded by
King Knud—our Canute the Great—to pay our respects
to the so-called body of Queen Gunhild. Her life was
an adventurous one, even for those ragamuffin ages. J
First she appears on the scene as a sorceress in Lithu-
* Dated 6th March, 1256, under the synod held by Archbishop Jacob
Erlandsen, most turbulent of prelates.
t January, 1525.
J Read her history in Dunham.
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