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Chap. LIV.
VORDINGBORG.
359
old story, when every insil possessed her own riders,
and they each individually made war one against
another; but we have had the same story elsewhere of
the sowing of the beech-masts, so may pass it by: and
then, suddenly, in the distance rises like a phare—though
not half so useful—a tall, slender tower, the far-famed
Goose Tower of the castle of Vordingborg.
VORDINGBORG.
We land at one English mile from the little town,
once a city of note in the days of the Valdemerians,
now a village, with its tower, its castle-site, alone
remaining to test the truth of its earlier glories.
All the Valdemerians dwelt at Vordingborg Castle,
and mightily affected it as a residence—it was the
Windsor of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries;
in her own convent church, rich still in old carved
altarpiece, was crowned King Christopher II.* It was the
apanage of our Prince George ; at his death returned to
the Crown; and was afterwards burnt to the ground, as
is usual in Denmark. But the full of the history of this
chateau fort took place in the days of Queen Margaret’s
father, that “ roi farceur,” old Valdemar Atterdag. You
recollect the story of the “ amulet” taken by the prying
* The sovereigns seem in the beginning to have been crowned
anywhere and everywhere, and the earlier ones— Knud the Holy, Niels, &c.
—not at all. Some of them—Magnus and Svend Grathe—received the
crown of the German emperor. Valdemar I. is the first ono crowned;
some were crowned by the Archbishop of Lund. Knud was crowned
nt Ringsted ; Christopher II. at Vordingborg, and Erik Glipping in
Viborg. Erik of Pomerania was crowned at Calmar, and Christopher
of Bavaria at Ribe. Generally on some Saint’s day the coronation
took place. First it was not customary to make knights, but Erik of
Pomerania made one hundred and twenty-three on the occasion.
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