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COPENHAGEN.
Chap. XIV.
sacramental plate, toys and toilets in gold enamel,
glyptics of rock crystal and other precious stones, the
properties of these sovereigns. Among them you will
observe some badges of the
“Armed Hand,” a mailed arm,
in green enamel, enriched with
diamonds—a decoration of great
beauty, and one which
Christian IV. gave only to his especial
favourites. It is very rarely seen
suspended round the neck even
of the numerous worthies, or
rather notabilities, for which his long reign was so
remarkable. Here, too, are preserved the collar and linen
stained with blood worn by King Christian in the naval
battle off Femern,* in which he received twenty-three
wounds, and lost his right eye; also the badges of the
Garter of the various Danish sovereigns who have been
invested with the order—the earliest, from its
workmanship, I imagine to be that of King John, who received
it from Henry VII.; likewise the robes of the order sent
by Queen Elizabeth to King Frederic II.—robes which
he positively declined to put on, to the great scandal of
her ambassador, Lord Willoughby.
In company with numerous likenesses of Christian
IV. and his first queen is an interesting miniature
of Kirstine or Christina Munk, to whom he was
mor-ganatically married in 1615, and by whom he had a
numerous offspring; and in a small allegorical portrait
of Christian, painted on wood by Van der Venue, you
* 1644.
Armed hand.
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