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Chap. XXXII.
THE ROSENKRANTZ FAMILY.
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Another Rosenkrantz, Palle, was sent to England as
ambassador in the time of James I., to arrange the
payment of 300,000 crowns, lent, at 6 per cent, interest,
by King Christian to James, when King of Scotland.
James was so pleased with Rosenkrantz that he gave
him his portrait set round with diamonds.
Then we have Olaf, the apologist for the nobility
and denier of the divine right of kings—pronounced a
traitor, exiled, his property confiscated; next
Rosen-krantz, minister of Christian VII., in grand gala dress
as Knight of the Elephant; and endless others, all more
or less distinguished in their way, many bearing round
their necks massive gold chains to which are attached
portraits of their sovereigns. Then the Jutland alii
ances of the family: Eleanor Ulfeld; the Reventlow
Queen — far superior to that of Frederiksborg ; —
Krag, Krabbe, Høg, Friis, Sehested, de Reetz, Brahe,
Gabel, Lange, Bille, Bielke, and other families, many
of them since passed away—chronological portraits of
350 years, interesting even to a stranger but slightly
acquainted with the history of the Rosenkrantz family.
We visited the gardens and the woods; never saw
so many snakes, harmless though they are. Game too
abounds in the forest—foxes, hares, and birds of all
kinds; grand fox battues, you will be shocked to hear,
every autumn. (Count Friis hunts his foxes with a small
pack of beagles.) I wonder what my old fox-hunting
friend would say to whom I once spoke of this custom:
“ Shoot a fox, Sir? zounds I I’d sooner shoot a Bane
and he would have done so.
After much kind pressing we remained to dinner ;
underwent the same fate; but their beauty excited the pity of the
bystanders, who rescued them.
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