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NYBORG.
Chap. XLVIII.
in its situation, and undegraded; it was once termed
Ellensborg, and was built by Ellen Marsviin, as the
iron cramps, bearing the letters of her name, announce,
date 1616.
It was here that, some twenty-four years later,* Ellen
ended her long and successful life in her 78th year.
We visited the chapel—splendid in its carved oak
fittings; and there on the wall’s side hangs the portrait
of the foundress painted at the age of 77—no longer
Ellen fair and dimpled as at Rosenholm, nor Ellen
over-blown as at Nør land, but Ellen an aged woman—
a fine, strong, green old age—in the costume of the
period, with a peaked hat like that of Mother Shipton—
a most interesting picture. At her death—she lies
buried in the village church of North Broby, with her
husband, Ludvig Munk—Ellensborg passed to Christina
Munk, and again to her daughter fair Eleanor Ulfeld ;
then came confiscation, and the glory of the Munkites
was at an end.
By the side of old Ellen are two full-length portraits,
those of Corfitz and Eleanor.
Every town in Denmark piqued itself on something
in the good old days, and Nyborg appears to have
vaunted loud and high its salutary by-lov—bye-law we
still call it in England—so severe, its very existence
would have made me let my house, “plier baggage,”
and fly even to Odense. Such a sumptuary law against
the wearing of swords at parties—such a chopping off
of hands for next to nothing—Star Chamber a joke to
it. The women, however, were treated with becoming
respect, for in one article it is enacted “that every
* 1649.
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