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THORSENG.
Chap. XLVIII.
270
tomb we visited in the Holm church of Copenhagen.
A pleasant walk along the water-side leads to the
residence of the lord and master—smiling villages, with
gardens, woods, hops, and orchards—a prosperity to
make the heart joyful. Valdemar Slot, it is called—a
huge pile, with gkte-houses spacious enough to furnish
a residence to any moderate-minded man, built by the
fourth Christian, who gave it, with the rich broad lands
surrounding, to his eldest son Prince Valdemar (by
Christina Munk), that good-looking fellow who hangs
in the Royal Gallery of Copenhagen, painted by Carl
van Mander. He appears to have been a spoilt boy,
as most handsome children are, and later in life ran
wild, causing his father some trouble. Christian writes
word to his son-in-law Corfitz Ulfeld, in a letter dated
14th September, 1643: “ Count Valdemar Christian
leaves this to-morrow on a journey through Denmark.
God grant him a happy journey! He has cost me much
money. Pray Heaven this may be the last! If you
don’t make him careful, he will soon spend all the
money I have given him before he comes to
Copenhagen, notwithstanding he has got here all that he
wanted ; besides which he owes the tailor 20,000 specie.”
An extravagant dog was Count Valdemar. He
endeavoured to persuade Corfitz to go security for him, and
“ back his bills.” So, to keep him out of scrapes, his
father sends him off on an embassy* to Moscow, and
negotiations are entered into for marrying our
scapegrace to the Russian Princess Irene; when all was
* The very same embassy to which Count Horn, whose epitaphium
we admired at Kiel, was appointed secretary.
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