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Chap. XLVIII.
VALDEMAR SLOT.
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arranged, Valdemar refused to be baptised according
to the Greek Church after the Muscovite manner. On
his first introduction into the Czar’s presence, by way of
seeking favour with his future father-in-law, he kissed
the sceptre. The Russians declared that from henceforth
he became the vassal of the emperor. When Valdemar
discovered this, he determined to leave secretly ;
accompanied by three of his attendants, he tried to escape
through Poland. On arriving at the gate of the city after
dark, he was recognised and stopped; and, after a pitched
battle between his servants and the Muscovites, was
taken prisoner, and kept secure until the death of the
Emperor Michel, when he was set at liberty. On his
way home he carried off a young lady from Warsaw,
deserted her, and she drowned herself in the Sound at
Elsinore. After Ulfeld’s rebellion, disgusted at the
coldness with which he was treated by his half-brother
Frederic III., he joined the party of his brother-in-law
in Sweden, and died in Poland, an officer in the Swedish
service.
Valdemar Slot is an ugly pile of brickwork
externally, much degraded, and now, alas! in Chancery, a
lawsuit between two brothers. It is however worthy of
a visit, with its gallery of portraits, one of the most
interesting in Denmark, but fearfully neglected, being
unappreciated by the possessors. In one of the great saloons
are hung those of the early sovereigns of the house of
Oldenborg, from Frederic II. downwards, all on
horseback ; each horse, however, follows that of his
predecessor, giving the whole the appearance of a royal
carousal or merry-go-round.
It was Frederic III. who, as “ cadet du sang,”
commenced life as Archbishop of Bremen—a world of trouble
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