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230
RIBE.
Chap. XLVI.
dinner, and so on in proportion to the rank of the
family. Should they disobey this law they were to be
fined one mark Danish to the kino-. This was a wise
precaution, as it was found necessary to discourage
the taste for extravagance which pervaded all classes,*
nearly to as great an extent in the celebration of
weddings as of funerals.!
Little wine, says an author of the 18th century, was
consumed in early days; for at the celebrated
marriage of Erik Ottesen, grand master of the realm, at
which King Christopher and his Queen Dorothea were
present, but half a cask was drunk, whereas now twenty
pipes of Rhine wine were oft cleared off, without
counting that of Erance for the common people.! As
for the trousseaux, they would have satisfied a Parisian
elegante of the second Empire. The list of that of
Tycho Brahe’s grandmother is a book in itself. Not
only did she bring linen enough, damascened and in
piece, to last a century, but all sorts of finery for her
* The Danish sovereigns did all in their power to repress the
extravagance of the nobility. Frederic III. issued sumptuary laws to the
effect they were not to wear pearls and gold on their hats and clothes,
and, when they gave parties, they were not allowed to serve other than
cold dishes to their guests; “ warm* food and delicatessen ” were strictly
forbidden. Christian V. dined every day off a loin of roasted veal,
washed down with Rhenish wine, of which a jug was placed by the side
of each person present.
f When Lars Ulfeld, brother of Corfitz, whose picture hangs at
Frederiksborg, married a second time, all the family made him presents
of silver plate to the amount of 5137 ounces: Hoffman, who gives
this list, remarks,—“ There was more profit in marrying then than
there is now.”
J When the Sagas talk of wine, they mean brandy-wine. The nobles
contented themselves with the beer and hydromel of the country.
“ Drink as much as you will,” was the hospitable saying, “for the cask
has a sister.” In ancient times a ton of hydromel was the fine for
every day a nobleman should absent himself from the diet at Odense.
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