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NYKJØBING.
Chap. LI.
the ferry-house; the cook-boy can accompany them and
take what is necessary. Christian appears to have been
in good humour with his succession, for he presented
his mother’s maid who cooked his soup with ten rose
nobles.
One letter, dated the latter end of the year 1631,
is as follows:—“ Apothecary Peter, fill your satchel full
of rotulen, musk, and amber, and other spices, as good
as you can get them, and bring it here at once.—
F rederiksborg.”
What could this be for? Nothing less than the
necessary medicaments for the embalmment of Queen
Sophia.
You will find many old acquaintances in these
portraits ; among them the queen of Christian I., here
ungagged ; old Joachim of Brandenburg, holding a drawn
scimitar in hand, looking like some vindictive Blue
beard, right in the face of poor Protestant Elizabeth.
She was quite right to run away; by his very look, he’d
have bricked her up. The palace of Queen Sophia has
disappeared; gone mosfi likely to build up something
else. If a royal Danish brick could only speak, what
tales it could tell of the sights it has witnessed from the
days of Thyre Danebod downwards, picked out from
the Danevirke for the erection of some chateau fort,
and so handed down to the present century !
We leave to the left the village of Torkildstrup,
named after the heathen Thorkild—the first man, say
the Danes, who pretended the earth turned round.
We passed in the distance a church-spire, concerning
which there runs a tale:—Many years ago dwelt in the
island of Falster a rich and noble dowager, who had
neither son nor daughter to inherit her golden treasures.
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