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18
VÆHK.
Chap. XXIX.
Baroness Krag, a.d. 1697, in his sixty-third year. We
stopped our carriage at the præstegaard to demand the
church keys ; the pastor himself accompanied us.
Grif-fenfeld’s remains lie in an oak coffin, above ground,
placed in an open chapel or dormitorium. A simple
inscription on a gilded plate informs the reader that
within repose the mortal remains of Christian V.’s Grand
Chancellor; this plate, however, moves with a secret
spring, and below appears a second, on which are
inscribed his honours and titles, in all the pomp of heraldry.
“ The illustrious, noble, and well-born, &c. (son of a small
wine-vender — rather too much that), Knight of the
Elephant, Denmark’s Lord Chancellor,” followed up by
the history of his disgrace, date of his imprisonment
and death—an inscription the family dared not exhibit
at the period of his death. His wife is buried in a vault
below.*
We returned to our carnage through the præstegaard,
the pastor having invited us to visit his domain. It may
amuse you perhaps to have a description of the
parsonage of a Jutland clergyman. You first drive through an
archway into the gaard or square court—a yard
surrounded with farm-buildings: opposite stands the house
occupied by the family; a few lime-trees are planted in
the centre ; a house-dog barks violently, as though he’d
break his chain; cocks, and hens, and chicks stalk
about; carts and horses; but no manure—all clean,
though somewhat untidy. The houses consist mostly
of one story: you enter rooms scrupulously neat and
* Baron Krag, his son-in-law, has a long epitaphium; twice
ambassador to Paris ; three times married ; twelve children by Griffenfeld’s
daughter ; a very grand wig and lace jabot, picked out most tastefully
in white marble.
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