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NYKJØBING.
rCHAP. LI.
CHATTER LI.
Island of Falster — Queen Sophia and the parson’s wife — How she
rules her household— The lady who could not die — Molesworth’s
account of swan-shooting — Familiar spirits and other superstitions
of the island — Island of Møen — The strong-minded Dorothea —
The bathing-place of Liselund — The chalk klints and beauty of the
scenery — The Klint King— Bacchanalian harvest-home.
ISLAND OF FALSTER.
NYKJØBING.
August 29.—We land on the small pier of Nykjøbing,
stop to breakfast, and then drive through the island on
our way to Møen.
There is nothing to see in Falster—no herregaards.
More exclusive than Lolland, the island, until some
years since, was a royal possession, the usual jointure
and residence of queens.
In the small town of Nykjøbing dwelt good Queen
Sophia, the widowed mother of Christian IV., glad to
retire from the court of her son, whose morals ill
accorded with the principles of his right-thinking
mother. Here too she died.
In the church hangs her pedigree—pedigree of the
house of Mecklenburg, with portraits of each member
from the earliest days.
When Queen Sophia ruled over the island she did
much good, encouraging industry, and employing in
her manufactures many hundred people. There still
stands an oak between Vaalse and Nykjøbing which
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