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86
AALBORG.
Chap. XXXV.
Her portraits are more rarely met with in town-halls
and public places than in ’the farmers’ houses, where
her memory is still cherished.
And now we come to the pride of Aalborg—the
Svane-Apothek. In Denmark the apotheker answers to the
French “pharmacienthey hold there a much higher
position than they do in England. As the lives of so
many are intrusted to their care, they are not selected
without a most searching examination. In former days
travellers appear to have been lodged at the apothek.
We find in Daniel Major’s Travels, 1693, “At the
apothecary’s I was treated with hare steak, excellent
salmon trout, and good aqua vitæ, and all at a cheap
price.” Again, in Holger Jacobeus’ Journal, 1671,
“ In Odense lodged at the apothecary’s, and drank lemon
brandy.” The signs of all apotheks in Denmark are
swans or lions, except one I have seen named after
King Solomon ; this, of Aalborg, was built in the year
1623, and is the finest specimen of the Renaissance
to be met with out of Zealand—such a queer old
tourelle too it has, tacked on to the doorway. At the
above-mentioned date there lived in the city of Aalborg
a wealthy wine-merchant, Jens Bang by name, one of
the olden school, liberal to a fault, honourable in his
dealings with all men. Young too he was, and loved
the daughter of old miser Knud Jensen, the eel-salter
—the fairest maid in the north of Jutland. A rich
son-in-law was much to old Knud’s taste; but it made his
heart bleed to see his money fly so freely; and when
Jens Bang commenced to build the house we now gaze
upon, Knud swore with a bitter oath that, if he did not
at once desist from so extravagant an undertaking, he
would end his days in the poorhouse. Jens laughed,
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