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148
COPENHAGEN.
Chap. X.
shop window; from the short petticoat of the little
child, to the cravat with flowing bow of the male adult.
Let us fly from this scene, and breathe fresh air among
the limes and lilacs in the Rosenborg Gardens — not
the old garden it once was, with cropped yew, and gay
plate-bandes, fountains, and orange-trees, but a
wilderness of trees, affording grateful shade in the summer
season.
We have still much to see. I will lead you to the
Place of the Gray Brothers (Graabrødretorv), where once
a monastery stood, long since swept away, and within
whose church reposed the infant children of King
Christian II., Maximilian and Philip. Queen Elizabeth bore
three sons in one year, John, the eldest, and these twins.
Sigbrit, who was present at the “ Barsel ” of the queen,
and not over particular in her speech, lost her temper
at the sight of them, and remarked loudly in the
hearing of everybody present, “ If the queen goes on in this
way, the country will be neither rich nor large enough
to support so many Heerkens,” which, I believe, in old
Dutch signifies “ little gentlemen.”
Later on this Place rose the stately palace of the
minister Corfitz Ulfeld, son-in-law of Christian IV.,*
* Corfitz Ulfeld was a noble of high birth, of one of the most ancient
families in Denmark. His father Jacob had seventeen children; Corfitz
the tenth. Hoffman gives a curious engraving of Jacob and his wife
at dinner, surrounded by his family; their dog Albinus seated on a
chair by itself; which dog some declare to be no dog at all, but to
represent either a natural daughter or one of his daughters who
changed her religion. The original painting was presented by the
States of Holland to Jacob Ulfeld, together with 1000 dollars, on the
termination of his embassy in 1621. Of Corfitz, who married Eleanor,
third daughter of Christian IV. by Christina Munk, we shall hear
much later.
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