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AALBORG.
Chap. XXXV.
once adorned with pious saws, long since painted over,
but still discernible. Before quitting Aalborg, Wrangel
imposed so heavy a ransom on the town, the burghers
could not raise the sum; Jens Bang, open and
generous as ever, came forward, purse in hand, willing to
advance the money on the simple word of his
fellowcitizens. He did so; was never repaid; became a
ruined man, and died, as the miser had prophesied, an
inmate of the poorhouse he himself had founded. Such
is the story of Jens Bang, which adds an interest to the
old house we all admire at Aalborg.
Look at this quaint entrance a few doors lower down
—above, the figure of a lady stands in a niche; it is
Christina Munk. The house belonged to her mother,
Ellen Marsviin, whose effigy, as well as that of Ludvig
Munk, her father, if it be them, guards the doorway;
date, 1616. Around the head of Christina hung a swarm
of bees—mason-bees—who from the memory of man
have built their nests in the wall behind her head—
pleasant vicinity. If you care for an antique font,
circular, with the date 1166 plainly visible in the
sculptured granite, there is one of gigantic proportions
in the yard of Wrangel’s dwelling-house—monstraceous
carving too upon it; cherubim with faces as broad as
Wiltshire cheeses; and pigs, or some other animals,
with tails expanding at the points into full-blown lilies.
By the harbour—a new little harbour lately finished
—stands the old palace, not the same probably in
which King Hans was born, but its successor, a
tumble-down affair, once moated, now filled up; the
inner court more like a country gaard than a palace,
all stripes and “cage-work;” and in this so-called
palace did Guldberg and Juliana propose to
incar
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