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Chap. XLIX.
EGESKOV.
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kilde, chateau of Baron Holsten Lehn, the gem of all
Funen mansions of the last century. A wondrous
fountain, from which it derives its name, casts up its
waters like an artesian well by the side of the house,
fertilising the plains, the gardens, and refreshing the
moat itself. Everything that luxury, art, and good
taste can give is here to be met with—gardens and
hothouses, fountains and fine old furniture, the rooms
fitted up with all the comfort and good taste of a
first-rate English country residence ; farms of a large extent,
poultry-houses, pheasantries.
In the lake hard by has lain hid, says tradition, a
vast treasure of gold and silver for 200 years. The
Swedes, laden with the pillage of the rifled island,
endeavoured to convey it across the ice; a scuffle -with
the Boers ensued, the ice gave way, and the cart,
treasure and all, sank to the bottom.
We are determined to visit no more chateaux; several
were on our list, some of historic interest; but each
succeeding day starts up some new object So at last, in
despair—for the summer glides on; we have no longer
the long light nights to travel through as when in
Jutland—deaf to temptation, we prepare to leave for
the sister island. One chateau, a gem of ancient days,
a jewel of mediaeval architecture, I did regret, but it
was, alas! uncomeatable, and that was Egeskov, the
property of Baron Bille Brahe.
There are dark tales in relation to this mansion,
illustrative of the manners even of fourth Christian’s period.
Laurits Brokkenhuus then was lord of Egeskov—a hard,
brutal man, known well for his cruel and revengeful
disposition. Among the fairest of Queen Anne
Catherine’s ladies stood his daughter Bigborg, distinguished
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