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114
ROESKILDE.
Chap. VIII.
remorse, forbade the deed, and, retiring home to his
palace, clad himself in rags, and returned next day to
the church, humbly demanding permission to enter
therein, kissing the very steps of the holy edifice ;
how Bishop William wept at his pitiable state, and
went out to meet him, and, after a public confession
and the payment of a large sum of money,
absolved him from his sin, and from that time a great
friendship was struck up between the two, and the
Bishop vowed he would never survive the death of his
friend and sovereign; and when the news of King
Svend’s death * reached his ears, and the body was
on its road from Jutland, he went forth to meet it, and
when he came nigh he left the carriage and gave up
the ghost on the way side. No wonder, after such a
proof of affection, Bishop William did not like being
removed from the neighbourhood of his ancient
com-panion.
Roeskilde, after a period, succeeded the abbey of
Ringsted as the royal place of sepulture, and has so
continued ever since. The reason given for this change
is simple. After the time of the second Valdemar,
alabaster monuments came into vogue, instead of the
brick sepulchres of the earlier ages, and the church
of St. Knud was found too small to contain them;
added to which the Abbot of Ringsted, in the time of
Christopher II., took part with the rival, Duke Valdemar,
in consequence of which he and his queen were buried
at Sorø, where Olaf lies also; Queen Margaret herself
* King Svend Estridsøn died 1076; lie was nephew of Canute the
Great, and sent a fleet, under his brother Esbern, to assist the revolted
Anglo-Saxons, but Esbern ^as bought off by William the Conqueror.
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