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ROESKILDE,
Chap. VIII.
CHAPTER VIII.
Roeskilde — Bishop William and King Svend — Tombs of Queen
Margaret and her successors — Dorothea, wife of two kings — Queen
Ju-liana of Brunswick — Pilgrimage of James I. to Roeskilde.
ROESKILDE.
When you gaze on the gushing fountains of pure crystal
water, which rise, limpid and plentiful, on all sides
from their natural sources, you will easily understand
how King Roe, of fabulous memory, attracted by the
abundance of this precious element, as well as by the
advantage of its favoured site, founded here the ancient
capital of Denmark, the time-honoured city of Roeskilde.
It was night when we arrived, and, lighted by the comet
and his fiery tail, we made for the inn, a long, low,
one-storied, narrow house, fronted by a charmille cut up
in arches above the lattice window, and there slept, as
best we could, half smothered under a hecatomb of
duvet. There is something pleasant, says the Prince
de Marsillac, in the misfortunes of one’s best friends. So,
when I read how in her palmy days Roeskilde possessed
thirty churches, of which two only now remain, I own I
did rejoice inwardly. There is a great deal too much to
be seen in this world, or, rather, too much in the same
place, while others are found wanting in interest. This
cathedral has been so often described, that jt is almost
superfluous to recur to the subject; still, as it must be
mentioned, I will endeavour to avoid old matters.
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