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Chap. XXIII.
VALDEMAR AND TOVELIL.
349
Søborg as elsewhere. King Valdemar Atterdag
succeeded his father Christopher II. after most
troublesome times. There had been an interregnum, and a
pretender, a Valdemar of Slesvig, Duke of South Jutland,
proclaimed, and then deposed—all manner of
disagreeables; so, to make matters straight and comfortable,
they married King Valdemar to Princess Hedvig, the
ex-crowned pretender’s sister—an alliance most politic,
but at the same time most disagreeable to the prince:
he hated her, and she was jealous; also had she reason,
as we shall later see.
Previous to his marriage the king had a love affair
with a certain Tove, a lady of noble birth, a Putbus
of the island of Rugen, to whom he was most tenderly
attached. At the time of the king’s marriage Tove
resided at Hjortholm (near Frederiksdal, one mile from
Copenhagen) ; later she removed to Gurre. During
the absence of King Valdemar in one of the numerous
warlike expeditions in which he was engaged,
Tove-lil is said to have died, having met with foul play, it
is supposed, at the hands of Queen Hedvig.
Now the chronicle relateth, when the king came
home from the wars he felt quite sure that the queen
was guilty of the death of Tovelil; proofs, however,
were wanting, so he bided his time, and sought a speedy
opportunity to avenge her. For that reason he sent
Queen Hedvig’s favourite, Folquard Lovmandsøn, on
horseback to Nyborg with a letter ; and from the
instructions contained therein, he no sooner arrived
than he was put into irons, and forced to jump into
a barrel studded with sharp nails, in which he was
turned round until death released him from his agony.
The queen, who was compelled to witness the execu-
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