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364 ’
HERLUFSHOLM.
Chap. LIV.
foundation, is the Eton—the Harrow rather of the Danish
dominions. A clear meandering trout-stream, through
a leafy forest, guides us on our way; a stray professor,
pale and unwholesome-looking, with the inevitable
spectacles on nose, taking his daily constitutional, and then,
further on a party of happy schoolboys, walking arm
in arm, imparting to each other their little mutual
confidences. Group after group passes by, all neatly
dressed and walking with decorum, for it is Sunday, on
which day alone the boys are permitted to go into the
town of Ncstved, and after four o’clock, the Lutheran
Sabbath being over, to visit the “tuck-shops” of the city.
Two children look wistfully at us as we pass, and
whisper something to each other; we look back, they
turn, and then a small boy, more venturesome than his
companion, runs up, capping us, and we recognise two
small acquaintances whom we had met in the chateaux
of their fathers during our wanderings in Jutland.
They volunteer to do the honours, procure the keys, and
initiate us into the academy of Herlufsholm, at which
they are pursuing their elementary studies.
HERLUFSHOLM.
Herlufsholm, once a convent of Benedictines,
resembles most of the red brick gaards of its period;
much massacred, happily unwashed. It was founded
in the 16th century by the celebrated Admiral Herluf
Trolle and his wife Bridget Giøe.* Herluf exchanged
* The Giøe family date back to the thirteenth century. Mogens,
father of Bridget, became a great advocate of the Reformation and
corresponded with Luther. He was appointed to arrange the
marriage of Christian II. with the Princess Elizabeth, whom he espoused
by procuration. His brother Henry commanded the fleet sent to bring
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