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Chap. XLIX.
BRAHESBORG.
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answer to her companions—yes, tack, tack, went the
boat. Talk of the ‘ Song of the Shirt,’ “ stitch, stitch! ”
write the ‘ Song of the Sail,’ just as odious in its own
way, “ tack, tack!” shooting off to right or left, as the
wind may be, some 200 yards, when you fancy yourself
all arrived at your destination. But we are at last
arrived, and bid a long, but I hope not last, good night
to the shores of old windy Jutland.
BRAHESBORG.
August 13fA.—We retrace our steps a part of the
way to Assens, to stop and spend the day at
Brahes-borg, the chateau of M. de Trescow. No doubt who
built Brahesborg—Jørgen Brahe, and somebody
Gyldenstierne his wife*—iron cramps, holding letters long
as those of St. Peter’s dome, announce the fact—
a custom luckily chiefly confined to Funen, by no
means ornamental; he seems to have been somebody
in his day, was nephew to poor ill-treated Tycho, and
called “ the little King of Funen.” He appears indeed
to have been a very Marquis of Carabas of these parts,
—possessor of Brahesminde, Brahesborg, Brahesholm,
Brahetrolleborg, and half a dozen others—many passed
into other hands, while the some six manors of the
present family belonged to somebody else. It’s
astonishing how property changes hands in Denmark.
Jørgen desired his workmen to build a house which
should last till the world’s end; it may, for its cellars
are vaulted like a fortress of the 19th century ; it is,
however, more remarkable for simple solidity than
for the beauty of its architecture. There was an era
* The epitaphium of Jørgen Brahe is engraved by Haelwech.
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