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BOLLER.
Chap. XXIX.
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CHAPTER XXIX.
Boiler, the place of banishment of Christina Munk — Her regal state —
The copper nail in a bed of gold— The eatable snail naturalized by
a Frenchman — Coffin of Count Griffenfeld — Præstegaard of a
Jut-land clergyman — Agnete and the merman — The English Cinque
Ports — Legend of the Elder Queen.
BOLLEPv.
June —Out of respect to the memory of Christina
Munk—not that she deserved it—we determined to
visit Boiler, the scene of her banishment after her
divorce and expulsion from Frederiksborg. She
remained here in confinement until the year 1646, when,
at the intercession of her sons-in-law, she was released:
they pleaded that her imprisonment reflected a disgrace
upon her children. From that time matters went better;
there was even a prospect of reconciliation between
her and the king; and she was at her mother’s in
Funen, on her way to Copenhagen, when the news of
his death reached her. She is said to have burst into a
flood of tears, and, after a regular good cry, to have
exclaimed, “ Well, who ever would have thought I should
have shed tears for Christian’s sake ?” Christina remained
at Boiler till her death, living ’in great state—a state
which was particularly displeasing to her step-son the
king, who sent commissioners down to Boiler to see
what she was after, and beg she would show the proofs
of her right to the title of Countess Slesvig-Holstein.
On their arrival they were received at the gate with
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