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194
VOSBORG.
Chap. XLIII.
prince not swung up, like Prince Alfred, in a vulgar
hammock, but with his “ real bed of gold.” He came
to grief on the lands of Ridder Frost, a very bad man,
who not only plundered him of his goods and chattels,
golden bed included, but allowed him even to be sacked
and insulted by his “ kokkedreng,” cook’s boy.
“ Oh !” exclaims the unlucky prince, blubbering like
a schoolboy—
“Oh! had I ne’er fallen in Frost’s hands,
But come to shore on Bugge’s lands,
Sir Niels would have sent me both knight and svend,*
Now robs me Sir Eskil’s kokkedreng.”
When this news comes to the ears of Sir Niels Bugge, he
despatches to his assistance his two sons, and recovers
among other things the celebrated golden bed from the
hands of the robber Frost; invites the prince to his
castle of Hald, gives him a fresh outfit, and sends him
back to England loaded with honours. The English
prince was not of an ungrateful disposition, for he
leaves his golden bed behind him. The altarpiece of
the church of Holstebro is carved from the oak of the
vessel in which he was wrecked, the head of his
golden bed is preserved in the church of Sal, while
the foot forms the altar-table of that of Stadil—where
you may see them both if you have any curiosity. This
old chateau of Vosborg, like most of the Jutland
manors, has its mystic number on which its fate
depends. Vosborg always passes away in marriage or by
sale in the third generation. From the Bugges it passed
to the Vendel Bos ; f on to the Podebusk, or Putbus,
* Retainers. *
t An early illustration : Bo Henderson, of the household troops of
K nud the Holy, stood firm to the fortunes of King Niels, and from a-
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