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44
FRIISENBORG.
Chap. XXXI.
emblazoned with the family arms, drive to the court
entrance, where the moat is large and surrounded by
horse-chesnuts of splendid growth, send up our cards,
and demand permission to visit the gardens. The
old chateau is quaint, flanked with antiquated towers,
whitewashed too, all except its stone foundations; the
whitewash contrasts queerly with the marble bust of
its long-wigged founder Count Mogens Friis, black as
time can make it, inserted in a niche above the
doorway, with an inscription saying how the Grefskav was
created in his favour by Christian V. in the year
1671. In five minutes* time we are joined by Count
Friis and his countess, who themselves do us the
honours of the place, and press us greatly to stop :
we finish by remaining over dinner, leaving for Aarhuus
towards the cool of the evening.
Of the chateau I say little: its interior is grand and
at the same time habitable—the Riddersaal, a
magnificent apartment, hung with family portraits, works of
art, many of historical interest: among them are
portraits of Eleanor and Corfitz Ulfeld, and Christina an
elder sister of the Reventlow Queen—Countess Friis
by marriage, pretty, and not such a fool as her sister.
Count Friis Friisenborg,* Juel—Wind—Friis—is the
richest nobleman in all Denmark. His father is still
alive, an aged man, but inhabits Boiler, having by royal
consent ceded the County to his son, the present
occupier of the place. In another year the chateau will
almost cease to exist; it is to undergo an entire
restoration at the^hands of an able architect, in the style of the
* Friis of Friisenborg is a distinct family from Friis of Borreby, of
whom more later.
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