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Chap. XLVIII. KAI LYKKE AND THE QUEEN.
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her merman comes to the English church to fetch home
his spouse, it is sung—
“ When the merman into the church-close treads,
The small saints and angels avert their heads
but they were English saints, and knew how to comport
themselves.
We pass on our day’s journey not far from
Lykkesholm, once the possession of the house of Lykke—
Lykke the gorgeous, as they were rightly termed, for
none were richer, nobler, and more magnificent than
the hero of my story. If ever you visit the Royal
Library of Copenhagen, ask for the Müller collection,
and there, among Denmark’s nobles, you will find the
portrait, after Thornburg, engraved by Haas, of a young
man, slight in figure, graceful in form, with long hair
cut short over the forehead. The features are not
perhaps strictly beautiful in their regularity; the charm
must have lain in the expression of his eyes and the
brilliancy of his complexion. This is the hero of my
story—Kai Lykke by name, the handsomest (smukkeste)
and richest young nobleman in all Denmark. His
beauty became a proverb, and the old rhyme ran—
“ Every fair damsel in Denmark did pray ”—
What they did pray I shan’t repeat, for it was very
bold of them, and they ought to have been ashamed of
themselves.
Well, Kai Lykke, handsome, young, and rich, was
badly Ipoked upon by the prudish Hanoverian Queen
Sophia Amalie. He had already been called over
the coals for a letter (still preserved) in which he says
“the queen stands in intimate connection with her
lacqueys.” This was perfectly true, for she was very
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