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56
ROSEN HOLM.
Chap. XXXII.
In the Rosenholm archives was preserved the private
collection of royal autographs extant from the time ot
Christian III. downwards; the letters of Erik during
his embassy to England, as well as the correspondence
with Ulfeld, Christina Munk, Tycho Brahe, &c. They
were unfortunately removed, after the death of the
minister Rosenkrantz, to Norway, and consumed in the
conflagration of Frederikshall, 1826. Jørgen
Rosen-krantz, founder of Rosenholm, was in the household
of Queen Dorothea, and employed on all occasions by
Frederic II. He was sent envoy to the Emperor, Duke of
Saxony, and other potentates. In his journal, 7th October,
1564, we find: “ Travelled from Leipsic to Vienna, to
have audience of the Emperor Maximilian, who
received me in his own chamber; and there was no one
else — we were alone. But his council and all his
servants were in the next room, and could hear our
converse; and he gave answers nobly and well.”
We drive through the extensive forest where in 1849
the German army encamped itself: they luckily
advanced no further north, but were speedily expelled
from the country. The sun was sinking behind the hill
—half-past nine—as we drove through the village:
suddenly a bell began to toll. “ What is that ?” we inquired.
The sunset bell always rings as the sun goes down—
the ancient curfew of England, as it still exists in old
cathedral towns. Do not imagine we leave to-night
for Randers, our kind hosts will not hear of it; so
here am I, sitting in an old tapestried chamber,
writing my journal. My windows look on the moat.
There are no ghosts, and my tapestries are pleasant
to gaze upon—a hunting scene and a picnic ; a boy page
plays the cithern, while couples dance under the green-
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