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128
NØRLUND.
Chap. XXXVIII.
a tower from the top of which I can gaze on St.
Bu-dolph’s church at Aalborg, and I am yours. Until
that, leave me in peace and quietness.” Little did she
know Ludvig Munk. Before many months had elapsed
a stately mansion, built upon deep-driven piles, began
to rise; the foundations, too, of the tower are laid.
The workmen are relieved day and night, for Ludvig
feels he has no time to lose.
Touched by his constancy, fair Ellen marries him at
once, long before the palace is completed, and became
later mother of Christina Munk, who was here born, and
whom Christian IV. first met on a visit to Nørlund, and
shortly after espoused at seventeen years of age. Some
authors declare Ellen to have laid snares for the
king, and to have taken her daughter regularly to the
Frue Kirke, and placed her in front of the royal closet
to attract his attention. The bait did not take at first;
but after a time his curiosity was excited: struck by
her beauty and the richness of her dress, he inquired
who she was; was told she was a daughter of the widow
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Munk; and, if the’portraits of Christina in her early
youth do not flatter her, she must have been very pretty.*
Christian accuses Ellen of having a hand in her
daughter’s disgrace—of being aware of “ her daughter’s
flighty life, which she carried on publicly, and ’which did
* In addition to her personal attractions Christina Munk was one
of the greatest heiresses of the day, a circumstance of which King
Christian seems to have been perfectly aware, for I find a letter in
which he urges Ellen to assure her daughter’s succession ; and at the
time of their mutual disgrace “he orders Ellen to deliver over the
properties of Boiler and Rosenvald for her daughter’s maintenance.
Without saying of him “ Han meete Reden, og ey Fuglen,”—he thinks
of the nest and not of the bird—he had no objection to the goods and
chattels of his morganatic spouse as a provision for his children.
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