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Chap. XVI.
MUSEUM: GREAT SALLE.
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in Denmark; they prospered, too, for the grandson of
one of them became not only Bishop of Zealand, but
one of the most popular of Danish poets.*
Numerous are the objects of interest in this room—the
carved wooden tankard, the rich bed from Jutland, the
jewelled toys; the golden apple or orange, of which
you touch the spring, and it falls into twelve “ pigs ” or
divisions, each for a different perfume; the ornaments
worn by the peasants of Jutland, of Sweden and Norway,
of Amak and the Faroe isles; also the goblet, half
melted by fire, presented by King James I. to the
University of Copenhagen. One of the attendants now
opens the cabinet containing the almanac of
Christian IV., with his own journal and remarks, and the
autograph of Tordenskiold; the petition written on blue
ribbon by the daughters of Ulfeld, praying for the
release of their mother; and many other treasures.
By this time you imagine you have seen everything
in the museum—it is near two o’clock, and you are
about to start; when, at the last moment, arrives
Professor Thomsen, followed by a crowd of attendants armed
with a perfect forest of keys. “ Come here! come here! ”
he exclaims; “ I will show you something. You see,
when I purchased this cabinet it was empty ; but it had
once contained spoons and tankards, so spoons and
tankards I determined to have; ” and, opening the door,
there they were, dozens of Apostle and christening
spoons hung around it, complete. “ Come on! come on!
I will show you what gave me most trouble of all to
* Bishop Kingo (he smartened up his name with an o) lies buried
in the church of Frangde in Funen, with an elegy inscribed on his
tablet from the pen of Ingemann; he married three wives one after
the other.
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