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Chap. XLIX.
HORNS OF WEDELLSBORG.
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Rosenborg, and she died of grief. Sophia Elizabeth,
a child of great beauty, who married Count Christian
Renz. A woman of spirit, a great flirt too, she was—so
much so as to scandalise her royal father, who writes
word how “Sophia Elizabeth is to be reprimanded on
account of her flighty behaviour with Christian Penz,”
just too when he was so busy about her grandmother,
good Queen Sophia’s funeral. She secondly married
Holger Wind, who at the time of Ulfeld’s disgrace
deserted her : so in her anger she returned his portrait
with the eyes “ clawed out,” just to show him how she
would have served him had he been within her reach.
Lastly Eleanor. The three little girls are dressed
exactly like their mamma, in buckramed farthingales,
scarlet red, and starched ruffs, gold powdered hair.
Prince Valdemar, just out of bed in his little shirt, and
a small dog, complete the group. Corfitz and Eleanor
Ulfeld in their early days, before trouble and sorrow
had thinned their locks and wrinkled their youth and
beauty. The Wedell family descend from a
granddaughter of Christian IV., and in the family chapel of the
church of Wedellsborg you may see this king’s portrait
suspended to the walls, dead on his “ lit de parade,”
somewhat like a chandelier, in a scarlet pelisse fastened
together with bows, his legs swathed up in fine linen or
muslin with a bow at the end.
It was near Wedellsborg that two of those splendid
Scandinavian horns were discovered; one, the finest
specimen, is here preserved, and hangs in the
dressingroom of Count Wedell; the other was forwarded to the
Museum at Copenhagen. And now, after taking leave,
we proceed on our journey, and, before arriving at
Middelfart, stop to visit the far-famed manor of Hindsgavl,
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