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Chap. XXXII.
BULSKOVGAARD.
57
wood tree. No fear of ghosts among such light-hearted
beings. The stove too—such an antique stove—with
bas-relief and cipher of Frederic IV.; and there is the
king too, with a lady on each side—liis two queens
perhaps—no, they are Justice and Plenty ; the king on
horseback ; hand issuing from the clouds places a crown
upon his head, “ proving thereby the Divine Right of
Danish kings.” Queer to find this in the house of a
Rosenkrantz ! a family who suffered from its opposition
to absolutism, but such was the Jesuitism of the day : as
the Portuguese missionaries caused sacred subjects to be
painted on china, for the conversion of the Chinese—
very rare these pieces are, the Emperor ordered them
all to be broken up—so the absolute Government of
Frederic IV. caused the Divine Right to be
propagated on the stoves.
Friday, 25th.—After breakfast we drove
overtoBids-kovgaard, a residence belonging to a brother of the
possessor- of Rosenholm, near the fiorde, overlooking the
island of Kalø and its ruined castle ; dined ; and at five
o’clock took leave of our hospitable friends. The old
Danish proverb of “ De Reisende have mange Herberge,
og faa Venner”—“ Travellers find many inns, but few
friends”—is not here realized; on the contrary, the
Jutlanders seem “At holde Kong Artus hof ”—keep open
house—a proverb the open table of that mythic
sovereign, at which all knights found a cover ready, gave rise
to. At Bulskovgaard M. de Rosenkrantz showed me a
piece of porcelain clay found on his estate, of which he
forwards large quantities every year for the fabrication of
porcelain at Copenhagen. Our way ran through a wide
expansive country, windy and bleak, which, were it not
for the regiment of turf-heaps ranged like huge black
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