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Chap. XXIX.
CHRISTINA MUNK.
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flourishes of trumpets—a somewhat regal proceeding,
which Christina, when she found out who they were,
very much alarmed, declared to be a mistake. Proofs
she could produce none beyond a letter in King
Christian’s own hand, directed to the well-born Mrs.
Cliristina Munk, Countess of Slesvig-Holstein. When
she was accused of writing “ we,” she gave no answer,
but went off into a tirade of her persecutions, &c. &c.
From this time we hear no more about her.
An old moated mansion is Boiler, surrounded with
garden, farm, and wood, running down to the water’s
edge; it is now the property of Count Friis. In the
gardens stands a pollard lime-tree, under whose branches,
supported on trellis-work, many hundred men might
dine. Splendid oaks too, of whose possession au English
park might be proud. Christina must have known these
trees, and perhaps under their shade may have wept—not
her fault, but its discovery—and thought what a fool she
had been to sacrifice honour, position, and the fortunes of
her children,* for the attention of a chamberlain of her
husband’s court. In earlier days Boiler was the scene
of a romance more tragic still. Queen Margaret, like
all women, was a matchmaker; she hated a too small
but powerful nobility, and it was her policy to swamp
them by marrying the younger sons to rich heiresses of
the commercial classes, and vice versa. On her giving
the high-born Kirsten Thott in marriage to her
favourite Jeppe Muns, son of a rich burgher, the indignant
bride presented her husband with a gold ring, in which
was encrusted a copper nail, with this inscription:
* The youngest of whom Christian refused to recognise. Ellen
Mars-viin sent her off to Cologne, where she was brought up as a convent
boarder, and later took the veil.
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