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Chap. L.
SHELL OF THE SWEDES.
297
population of Lolland have handed it down from father
to son; they repeat it still, as they will indeed do for
many generations to come, and look on it as first-rate.
To the right of the altar, mounted on the capital of a
disused column, stands a huge shell, burst in twain,
which came tumbling through the roof of the building
in the 17th century, during the celebration of a
christening.* Just above the spot where it now lies, the hole in
the roof has been plastered up with yellow mortar, to
mark the place where the destructive missile found its
entry.
Before the restoration of the church took place the
mummies of the vaults below were the glory and
gain of the verger, now closed to the public for ever.
It was a regular Madame Tussaud, a very chamber
of horrors. There was Karen Holm, another young
lady who danced herself to death, with a smile still
on her countenance; the man who died of the black
pest, and whose body was tarred over from top to toe,
to prevent infection, all black in consequence; true,
not to life but death.
If the christening party in Naskov church escaped
scatheless from the bursting of the shell, such was
not the case with the inhabitants when, at a later
period, the city was forced to capitulate, for the terms
imposed, by the victors were so hard that many years
elapsed before the town again recovered its prosperity.
Some five years later upwards of 160 houses stood
unoccupied. The Swedish king himself appears to have
been the most economical guest of the party; the
expenses of his board and lodging amounted only to
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