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Chap. XVIII.
ELSINORE.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
The town of Elsmore — Story of Dyveke and Christian II.—Her death
— Execution of Oxe — Holger Dansk’s spectacles —• The fairy
Morgana— The castle of Kronborg — Embassy of Queen Elizabeth —
Marriage of James VI. of Scotland—His assumption of the Tudor
badges—Prison of Caroline Matilda—The “ green-bone ”—Anecdote
of a stork.
ELSINORE (HELSINGØR).
May 3rd.—We have this morning lionized the town of
Elsinore. It boasts of nothing remarkable; its streets are
narrow; the long, low, many-windowed houses are of
respectable appearance; many spacious, boasting an air
of better days. On the whole, it reminds one of some old
rotten borough, once a stronghold of corruption, now
deprived of its iniquitous corporation, fallen from its high
estate. The lately built Raadhuus is a building of
considerable pretension, modelled on the red brick Gothic
peculiar to these northern climes—a most creditable
edifice, but (there is always a but) badly placed in the
centre of a long street, half concealed by the adjoining
houses. Its construction was a regular job; one side of
the neighbouring square was offered to the authorities for
a trifling sum ; the proposition was, however, negatived
by tlie chief magistrate of the place,—“ It would be too
far removed from his own dwelling; he had become fat
and unwieldy, and could not bear moving.”
Elsinore possesses two churches, both of great
antiquity, of red brick, well proportioned, but externally
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