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THE ISLAND OF HVEEN.
Chap. XX.
CHAPTER XX.
The Island of Hveen — Tycho Brahe and his golden nose — The
Ura-nienborg —“ Magister Jacob ” pays him a visit—Walkendorf, and the
dogs of Tycho Brahe — His persecution — Rantzau “the learned”
— Tycho Brahe’s days—His death at Prague.
THE ISLAND OF HVEEN.
Tycho Brahe and his golden nose — who has not
heard of his fame? Something connected with the sun
and the stars, beyond which most of us know little
about him. So, having got him well up, we took boat
from Elsinore, and with a favourable wind were, in
two hours’ time, landed at the island of Hveen, but,
when we got there, found nothing to see : not a vestige
of the far-famed Observatory save its foundations. The
palace was pulled down by one of Tycho’s successors,
and the materials carried over to build a castle in
Funen. All we could do was to come back again, not
much gratified by our visit to a desert isle, the
habitation of a few peasants.
Sprung from an illustrious line of ancestors, among
whom he numbered the well-known Saint Bridget, Tyge
or Tycho first saw the dawn of day in the year 1546. He
was son of Otto Brahe, lord of Knudstrup in Skaane, and
later governor of Helsingborg Castle, the man who was
supposed by Queen Mary to have witnessed the
confession of Bothwell in the fortress of Malmø. Tycho was the
eldest of ten children, and adopted by his paternal uncle
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