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DRONNINGLUND.
Chap. XXXVII.
heads a dozen times over than pass another night in
such villanous company.
On quitting the court we drove to the village church,
along the very road by which one Sunday morn the
lady Ingeborg rode in her gilt caroche; and spinning
by the way, for she was never idle, she sees a little
child among the corn, plucking the ears and eating the
grain; so she stops the carriage. “ Come here, little
girl; what are you about?” “Eating corn, please,
my lady.” “ Oh! so you can’t keep your hands from
picking and stealing, can’t you ? hold them up! ” The
child obeys. Snip! snip! off go her fingers, severed
by the steel scissors worn at the girdle of the relentless
lady of the manor. We visited the church, where still
stands the splendid carved oak “ pue ” used by Ingeborg
in her lifetime; and in the Skeel chapel, out-topping the
edifice itself in height, admired the splendid Renaissance
monument, erected in her lifetime to her husband and
herself. They are represented kneeling face to face.
It is 80 feet high, and is, I am sorry to say, going to
decay from damp and neglect.
DRONNINGLUND.
We went to visit Dronninglund on our way, a fine
extensive manor, under restoration, once a convent of
Benedictine nuns, founded by Frue Gro in the 13th
century, by name Hunslundkloster, until it became
secularised and stamped with an fT (Frederic and Sophia).
Queen Margaret loved it much, and founded there an altar
for herself and friends and perpetual mass for their souls.
Of Queen Margaret’s friends the less said the better. So
thought her nephew and successor Erik the Pomeranian,
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