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ELSINORE.
Chap. XVIII.
fearfully degraded. That of St. Olaf once piqued itself
on its spire, which was blown down, in 1737, during a
hurricane, which seems to have sent half the
churchsteeples in Denmark toppling over like ninepins;
either the hurricane was very violent, or the spires
badly built.
The interior is rich in carved and gilded altarpiece
and ornaments of papistic times. Then there is the
epitaphium of somebody who saved Denmark from the
Swedes—so said the custode; but when I heard who it
was from, I no longer troubled myself about it.
Denmark was always being saved from the Swedes—quite
an every-day occurrence. In the adjoining
cloister-church of St. Mary lies, or rather once lay, interred
Dyveke, the celebrated favourite of King Christian II.
Some historians relate that Dyveke died at Elsinore,
otherwise it seems a strange place to have selected for
her sepulture, when we consider the way in which
her mother Sigbrit had treated the inhabitants of this
city.* Dyveke, from all accounts, was much too
simple-minded a girl to think of bequeathing her body to be
buried anywhere.
Whilst I am on the subject I may as well give some
account of Prince Christian’s first meeting with his
favourite in Norway, where he was sent by his father
Kins; John.f
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* They had incurred her displeasure by refusing to receive a body
of Dutch colonists she was anxious to establish there ; in revenge she
removed the Sound duties to Copenhagen.
f Christian got himself excommunicated by the Pope or clergy for
causing the death of a bishop whom he had imprisoned on the
accusation of having taken part in an oprør. The bishop cut his shirt into
strips and let himself down from the window, but, being of a corpulent
tendency, the rope broke; he fell to the ground and broke his leg.
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