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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. X.
repair and likely to fall, Christian IV. ascended to the
top, to see with his own eyes how the matter stood (no
one else would), and later gave directions to the
workmen how it should be fastened together and sustained
with iron crampions. But now for the sad untimely fate
of Our Lady’s Church. In 1807 three bombs from the
hostile battery struck her graceful spire ; the whole
instantaneously fell with a crash, and the first
knowledge of the mischief perpetrated was conveyed to the
inhabitants by the shouts and hurrahs which rose—
drowning even the roar of the cannon—from those
remarkably mischievous specimens of humanity our
British sailors.
There is wind enough in Copenhagen, Heaven knows!
but at the corner of the Place by the Frue Kirke more
than anywhere, and I will tell you why.
The Devil and the Wind went out one day together,
and, when they came to the corner of this. Place, said
the Devil to the Wind, “ Wait a little for me, for I
have an errand in the Bishop’s palace.” He went in,
but found himself so much at home he forgot to come
out again; so the Wind is there still waiting for him.
The first idea of establishing the University of
Copenhagen is to be attributed to King Erik the
Pomeranian, perhaps at the suggestion of his Queen
Philippa. Before this period the Danes studied
at Paris, where they had especial colleges for their
use. The required sanction was obtained from Pope
Martin V. ; and the Archbishop of Lund, metropolitan,
was desired to select a fitting site for its construction.
Neither Erik nor his successor King Christopher found
time or leisure to follow up the idea, and its first
inauguration took place in the reign of Christian I., on
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