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TIELE.
Chap. XXXVIII.
attire, and was caught in the streets of Aalborg.
Prince Henrik, suspecting unjustly his cousin Knud
Lavard, aided in his murder.* He pardoned the
princess because she was deserted by her lover; but later
caught somebody else, and buried him, like the tutor,
under a høi.
Well, history compels us to gaze on this little Sø,
which has seen a great deal in its day, but of which
no traces remain: it looks very calm and quiet, with
the white village church, built down by its water side,
glad to have done with all these exciting times, and
be at rest.
TIELE.
How the wind did blow as we proceeded ! umbrellas
turned inside out; can hardly sit in the carriage. My
geography, too, is at fault: a new road has been opened
this summer, and we are all at sea till we stop at Tiele
to look at the tomb of a ridiculous puppy of the last
century, a certain Capitaine de Levetzau, who left
orders in his will that his sarcophagus (which looks like
a work of Wiedevelt), all curves and allegory, should
be supported by six undraped female figures, “ in humble
expression of his gratitude to the fair ’ sex for the
favours he had received from them in his life-time.”
Orders were given for the execution of the monument,
* The cousins had already come to loggerheads, at the marriage of
Prince Magnus in Pibe, about dress. Prince Henrik appeared clad
in a suit of sheepskin, while Knud ^Lavard dazzled the eyes of all
beholders by the splendour of his scarlet raiment cut after the Saxon
fashion. Henrik, boiling over with jealousy, sneeringly remarked,
“ Such new-fangled stuff ill befitted a warrior, and would afford little
defence against the sword-cutto which Knud replied, “ Scarlet cloth
was quite as serviceable as sheepskin, when the wearer had the
courage to defend himself.” Prince Henrik never forgave that suit of
scarlet.
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