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SKANDERBORG.
Chap. VI.
or, indeed, knowledge, of the court, for when, many
years after, the doctors advised that the young Crown
Prince Frederic, later VI., should be sent thither after
an illness for change of air, on the Lord Chamberlain
writing to desire that apartments should be prepared
for his reception, he received for answer that the
castle ceased to exist, and had long since been sold
for the value of its materials. Many are the events
of historic interest which here occurred— far too
numerous to mention. Here our own Queen Anne,
consort of James I., first saw the light; and Christian
IV. passed much of his early life sailing his little
boats on the lake, and constructing miniature models
of boats and frigates with his own hand — a taste
he never lost in after-life. He was prouder of his
title of Captain Christian Fredericsen, as he called
himself when he visited the North region, at the age
of twenty-two, in his ship the “Victor,” than of his
rank as Prince Hereditary of Denmark; all the same,
he ran his vessel on a rock, and she well-nigh
foundered, had it not been for the assistance of an English
skipper, who towed her into harbour. His brother
Duke Ulrik served under him as mate in this
expedition. “ Riis gior bamet viis ”—the rod makes the
child wise—was the motto of their father; and the
young princes were here kept in strict discipline under
the charge of a certain Hans Mikkelsen, who enjoyed
other offices than that of tutor about their royal
persons ; for in the Royal Library of Copenhagen may
still be seen a book written in King Frederic’s own
hand (1584 date), with the following notice:—“ I gave
this book to Master Hans, my son’s chastiser—‘tugte
mester ’—here in Skanderborg.” As it was the King’s
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