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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIV.
guard-house, tacked on to the original gateway, disfigures
the entrance. The jewels, miniatures, and portraits
have been re-arranged in chronological order, under the
direction of Professor Worsaae, lately appointed warden
of the castle. Rosenborg is now a deserted palace, a
fidei commissum and museum of the house of Oldenborg.
In the last century it formed the first halting-place of
the King, who inhabited it for a fortnight in the early
spring, previous to continuing the Royal progress to
Frederiksborg and other residences.
You enter the palace by a long corridor, with richly
wrought ceiling adorned with pendants, such as one
sometimes meets with in the old country houses in
England of the same or of a previous date.
Passing through the audience-chamber, empanelled
with pictures by Dutch artists, you come to the room in
which Christian IV. died*—a room whose Cytherean
decorations scandalized Wraxall when he visited the
palace. In this and an adjoining cabinet are preserved
the valuables of the sovereigns of anterior date, as well
as those of the founder himself.
First on our list comes the celebrated horn of
Olden-borg, the work of a German artist, Daniel Aretæus
by name, a native of Corvey, in Westphalia, executed
about. the year 1455, by command of Christian I.,
whose intention it was, had he succeeded in his office
of mediator between the Chapter of Cologne and their
Archbishop, to have presented it as a votive offering
to the shrine of the Magi in that city. The
nego-ciation failed, and the horn remained an heirloom to
the house of Oldenborg, in the capital of which duchy
* 1648.
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