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FREDERIKSBORG.
Chap. XXIV.
during seven years before this work was brought to a
termination. The Swedes are accused of carrying off
the silver capitals and bas-reliefs of the lofty black
marble chimney-piece, as well as of destroying the
“ Minstrels’ Gallery,” during the war of 1659, but
those who ought to be well informed declare they were
melted down by the Danes themselves when in want of
money. The tapestries have been removed, waiting until
they can be repaired, but the room is hung round with
full-length portraits of various potentates of Europe,
perhaps the least interesting series of the collection. I
may allude to some of them hereafter.
One of the most beautiful apartments in the palace
is that termed the council-chamber, gorgeously
decorated in the taste of the last century, and hung with
the portraits of the house of Oldenborg down to
Christian V., by Daguerre.
It is in this and an adjoining room that his present
Majesty keeps his private collection of Scandinavian
antiquities—a collection of great interest—the greater
part being the produce of his own researches.
When I first went to Frederiksborg his Majesty
graciously invited me to remain on a visit, and the following
morning did me the honour to show me the collection
in person. The King is a zealous antiquary, and has
lately published a small pamphlet on the means adopted
by the ancient Scandinavians for removing those
enormous stones used in the erection of their dolmens and
giants’ chambers.
Externally the castle of Frederiksborg has suffered
but little, and the good taste of the present King has
caused to disappear the additions and alterations of
succeeding monarchs. But the interior has fearfully suf-
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