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Chap. XXXII. CHURCH OF HORNSLET. 55
little turret-shaped clock, of the sixteenth century,
engraved with the arms of Jørgen and his wife Dorthe
Lange, continues to wag its pendulum and strike the
hours, no ill will befall Rosenholm, and, from the activity
it evinces at present in the salon, little alarm need be
excited for the future fate of the family whose destinies
its good works hold within its power.
People talk much of the ill will existing between the
landlord and the peasant in the country; but to-day I
was struck, on admiring at dinner a massive silver
ewer engraved with trailing vine-leaves, to find by the
inscription it was an offering of affection and gratitude
from the peasants of the adjoining village to Baron
Rosenkrantz, on the celebration of his silver marriage:
there was also a bread-basket of the same metal
presented by the servants and retainers of the family.
After dinner we drove down to visit the village church
of Hornslet, a very St. Denis of the family, dating from
the fifteenth century : here we have them all again—
Erik, governor of the castle of Bergen, who received
Bothwell on his arrival; Holger and his wife ; Erik, no
longer to be snubbed, but Erik, portly “ Legatus ad
Anglos,” in company with three ladies, his wives, all
dressed in white satin—as though they had inherited
each other’s gowns. Then there is a library in the
church for the use of the population—the gift of Holger
the savant; and lastly a chained book bound in copper,
with a list of the monuments, inscriptions, and
epi-taphia, a legacy to the church from Erik’s widow;
and a deal else about the chronicles of the family.*
* In the collection of engravings by Schatten is the frontispiece to
the funeral sermon, representing the epitaphium of Erik Rosenkrantz,
in which an angel is pictured as descending from heaven and placing u
crown of roses upon his brow.
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