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Chap. L.
KNUTHENBORG.
301
“ Nothing more easily, liege King,” replied the knight,
“do you only, by your virtue and chastity, establish
such a court as that of King Arthur, and the knights
will be found fast enough.” The King collapsed, for at
that time there was much scandal about his misbehaviour.
“ Indeed,” adds tlie chronicler, “ when Queen Christina
was imprisoned in Sweden, King John appears to have
forgotten he had ever been a married man.”
KNUTHENBORG.
We now make for Knuthenborg, Grefskab of Count
Knuth, situated on the sea-shore, embowered in park
and forest. Laaland is flat, fertile, and ugly; but
plant a chateau on the sea-side, surround it with forests
of beech, with garden and park and fine timber-trees,
it at once becomes a paradise. Such is Knuthenborg,
or, rather, will be; at present it is in a state of
transition. An older residence, not yet pulled down, a new
castle in course of erection, one wing finished, awaits the
majority of its youthful possessor. It will be a
magnificent place when completed in the style of Denmark’s
national architecture—for she has a style, and wisely
preserves it. We passed a pleasant day in the society
of our kind friends the countess and her youthful
family.
MARIBO.
It was nearly pitch-dark when we arrived at the
town of Maribo. We caught glimpses of a lake, a
new-built Gothic town-house, and then whirled into the
porte cochëre of the Gjæstgiver of the city.
Maribo was given, when it bore some other name,
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