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Chap. VII.
THE UNIVERSITY.
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is the beau ideal of dandyism of the last century, a
handsome young man with fine large dark eyes. He
married first a daughter of our King George II., the
Princess Louisa, a name still loved and remembered
throughout the country; and to her, I am sorry to say,
he made a very bad husband.
As we left the building the boys were assembled in
the court-yard, busily engaged in the purchase of buns
from the old woman who I suppose enjoys this monopoly.
They appeared a gentlemanlike set of youths, and saluted
us as we passed, taking their caps off—more than the
Eton or Harrow boys would have done. We rested in
the pretty garden of the academy, still a blaze of autumn
flowers; a splendid weeping Cratægus quite dazzled the
eye, loaded with its scarlet berries. The trees and
flowers seed more abundantly in the north than in the
more southern latitudes.
Among the royal personages interred within the abbey
church of Sorø is Valdemar Atterdag,* father of Queen
Margaret: the full-length figure of white marble, placed
there by the piety of his daughter, whom he hated, has
long since disappeared.
But the first object of interest is the sepulchral stone
of Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark. On a shield is
inscribed the lion of Norway, bearing the hatchet of
St. Olaf in his paw, surmounted by a skull. King
Olaf died early, and wras succeeded by his mother?
the great Margaret. This youthful Olaf was the first of
the Danish rulers who assumed the title of King of the
Wends and Goths, and caused the custom of praying
for the king and queen in churches to be established;
* He died at Vordinborg in 1375.
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