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Chap. XXXVII.
VOERGAARD.
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CHAPTER XXXVII.
Manor of Voergaard — Skipper Clemens and Bishop Crump again —
Lady Ingeborg Skeel and the architect — The message of her
husband — Her disturbed spirit — Her prison, the Rosodonten — Her
Sunday pastime — Her monument — The road-side inns of Queen
Margaret — Jutland mode of boiling eggs.
VOERGAARD.
The postboy turns off the high road to Voergaard, one
of the most interesting chateaux, both from its
architecture and history, in the whole of Vendsyssel, a splendid
specimen of the early Renaissance, built of red brick and
sandstone. As you pass under the gateway, rich in stone
carvings, of a somewhat diabolical character, above
stand two shields, the armorial bearings of its founders,
Frue Ingeborg Skeel and her husband Otto Banner,
with the date 1538. In the earlier part of the fifteenth
century Voergaard was the property of the Børglum
bishops. In 1534 it underwent the fate of all noble
residences in these parts, was destroyed and burnt to
the ground by Skipper Clemens and his band, “who
hunted,” says the old chronicler, “ Bishop Crump ”
(Bishop Crump, who looks as good as gold on his
tombstone) and “liis Frille” (impossible to translate such a
word when speaking of an ecclesiastic) “Elizabeth
Gyldenstierne from their good rest;” so that the Bishop
“ krob udi muus hul ”—crept into a mouse-hole ; an
exaggeration of the chronicle, for it was only in a baker’s
oven that he took refuge. Voergaard is burnt and
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