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Chap. L.
JUELLINGE.
299
lawful coinage of the realm.* Forest lands exist—a
gift to the city from his mother Margaret of Pomerania ;
Sprænghest, as she was called. She broke the wind of
all the horses she mounted by her violent riding.
Lolland is as flat as a pancake. We leave Naskov,
and drive through roads bordered on either side by
fields—square fields. When they are oblong, oh 1 what
a blessing! quite a feature in the appearance of the
country. Then each field is surrounded, not by a
hedge, but hurdles and a row of pollards, willows or
poplars.
JUELLINGE.
Not far from Naskov we arrive at Juellinge, a
chateau of Count Friis; most imposing it looks, too,
from a distance in its ancient Gothic; but on arriving
you discover the Gothic is most suburban in its
character. Its gardens have still a faint perfume of old
Popish days. We visited the chapel, restored by Good
Queen Sophia, whose “ hope was in God alone,”—
an admirable motto, so applicable to the days in
which she lived, when the tenets of the past were
uprooted and the future was dimly discerned. She
allowed herself to be seduced by fanatics of neither
* “ Hyt Klipping Fi ” was the cry (when he was out of hearing) of
the people. In this, however, he was not worse than his successors,
for Frederic II., of pious memory, caused the money to he clipped
until the thaler valued scarcely more than three marcs; the people
refused to take them, so ho issued an ordinance, read in Nestved on
Ascension Day 1564,—“That those who refused to take them should
at once lose their heads without mercyand, as about this time the
mint-master and all his men had died of the plague, his subjects were
compelled to put up with what they could get; and, writes King
Frederic to Iris minister Gyldenstierne, “ the shops are put to great
inconvenience by the want of small change.”
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