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138
COPENHAGEN.
Chap. X.
CHAPTER X.
Monuments of Juel and Tordenskiold — Death of Frederic VI. — Street
of Coffins — Barsel of Queen Elizabeth — The Round Tower — The
Frue kirche — University — Bombardment of
Copenhagen—Carnival in the island of Amak — City ramparts — Legend of the buried
child — Golden House of the King’s alchymist — The Grønlandgade.
A fine autumnal day and a bright sun,—we cannot do
better than continue our promenade of yesterday ; it’s
such a comfort to have done the town, and to feel at
liberty to bend our steps, with a free conscience,
wherever inclination leads us. Turning down the
Gammel Strand, we pause for a moment, near the bridge,
again to admire the Bourse, peeping out from among
the rigging of the various cutters anchored in the
canal. How picturesque it appears-—what a study
for an artist! You will not care to walk through the
Butchers’ Market, unless you be an agriculturist, and
fatten your own beasts. We must turn to the right,
where stands the Holm Kirke, a work of Christian IV.,
but sadly mauled since his time. The doorway alone gives
any token of the Renaissance period; but the monarch’s
cipher still adorns the building, and his favourite
legend R F P, which the people, with that spirit of
contradiction so universal in all countries, translated,
since the days when Madalena scattered the public
money with so lavish a hand, as “ Riget fattes Penge ”
(“ The kingdom misses the money ”). In the mortuary
chapel attached to this church are monuments to the
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